skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lesson two of this course does a great job explaining K-means and its connection to Expectation Maximization.
https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-unsupervised...
And that purpose is to get a job = business
Infalling matter or radiation becomes ‘simply’ infinitely red-shifted (on account of the slowed time), and hence undetectable to an external observer — and is hence indistinguishable from the bulk of the prior-existing “black hole proper”.
I wonder if some of the early core functionality such as replication, splitting, energy generation, etc. only has a few simple and effective possibilities? Are there any really simple RNA/protein patters that almost just have to occur from a statistical/mechanical view?
After all the big discoveries (and personalities) of the 20th century, physics has seemed to be relatively quiet lately. So people are eager for the next big and dramatic change to our understanding.

And that's what George Chapline is offering the pop sci press.
The paper mentioned there was a problem with using 0% opacity. The moving pixel window was therefore set to the lowest possible nonzero opacity.
There are a lot of caveats here that this click-baity headline doesn't convey:

They COULD create more CO2 "if it’s made in a factory powered by fossil fuels in a place like Germany, according to Berylls’ findings."

That's a big assumption and one that doesn't account for the long-term impact that electric vehicles could have on the road. Also, the overall impact of the CO2 emissions depends on where the car is being driven and where the factory is located.

Also this:

“'It will come down to where is the battery made, how is it made, and even where do we get our electric power from,' said Henrik Fisker, chief executive officer and chairman of Fisker Inc., a California-based developer of electric vehicles."
Why you aren't drowning in recruiters too
Google had this for a long time, also Facebook and also Microsoft I believe- especially after it became a GDPR requirement most companies just rolled it out worldwide. Bloomberg's quality of research is going down a bit recently.
"7,000 potential violations of civil law"

Serious (and probably naive) question, what law are they breaking?

My understanding of TOSs is that the company can unilaterally deny a user the stipulated service if they believe they are breaking the terms, but not taking you to court over it.

"Undermines enjoying for users playing fairly in online modes" doesn't strike me as a punishable offense.

If the cheats involved unlawful access to the server it would be hacking, I guess, but if they work on a local PC and users used them willingly, I don't see how they can be held liable.

Copyright infringement?
I think Pfizer has 3 times the number of employees and 2 times the valuation. So not really something that jumps out as being such a huge difference. Even though you would expect a large difference since most tech companies don’t employ unskilled labor and instead just (ab)used them through the gig economy.
Pretty savage...
Not sure what you're selling, but if it's B2B SaaS at all, then Entrepid Partners have a great 40 pager on the sales cycle.

You have to sign up for their mailing list to get it, but here's the static file:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57daf6098419c27febcd4...
First, read "Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff[1]. No seriously, read that book cover to cover, you can do it in a weekend.

Next do everything @coffeemug said :-)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Pitch-Anything-Innovative-Presenting-...
I get this sometimes when I'm lit. But unfortunately drinking isn't really a general solution.

Ennui/etc. with age seems to be a common feature of human life, going back centuries or more.
Why Are So Many People in San Jose Fighting Housing for Teachers?
They do publish information of that sort, beginning during the Obama administration:

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?name=university%20of...

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/obamas...
BYU. Current tuition is $5,620 for full-time semesters - it was about half that when I started 10 years ago. Cost of living nearby is also exceptionally low - I paid $600 / month for a 2-bedroom apartment 4 blocks from campus. Heavy discount if you're a contributing mormon, and of course the big down-side for most people is that almost everyone is. You don't have to be mormon, but it's a dry campus and absolutely not a party school. So most of the other non-mormons are either from a similarly conservative culture (muslims, usually, a few christians) or just recognize the bargain. Despite the general religiosity and political affiliation, the science classes were actually religion-free, a pleasant surprise, and treated evolution and climate change the way I'd expect at any other university.

Majored in computer science. There's a lot of student-friendly work nearby, especially for software people. I really couldn't stand the local culture and I'm even from a pretty conservative christian home, but I was there to get down to business so I worked as much as I could, maxed out credit hours I could take (12 - 18 credit hours all costs the same), and got out in 4 years with a solid education, no debt and enough savings to comfortably start my real adult life right away. A hard 4 years, but looking back it was clearly the right call compared to my peers. Tuition prices at other colleges have just never seemed worth it. Had I not gotten into BYU I would likely have tried to just get software jobs with no degree, or gone into a trade like welding.
Good question.

There are rotating restaurants in various towers and buildings.

It might be some thing as simple as a center section that doesn't rotate.
"The residential Shaw Services are designed for personal Internet use. You may not use the residential
Shaw Services for commercial purposes. You may not run a server in connection with the Shaw Services
nor may you provide network services to others via the Shaw Services. Examples of prohibited servers
and services include but are not limited to mail, http, ftp, irc, dhcp servers, and multi-user interactive forums.
Some business services may be
exempt from these limitations."

https://www.shaw.ca/uploadedFiles/Terms_of_Use/Acceptable_Us...
Yes, not just US and EU - for everyone.
At some point organizations just can't afford to pay what they need to survive. We might have plenty of teachers if pay started at $90/yr, but since no school can afford to pay that much, we are stuck with whatever the supply is at below market wages.

Which is exactly my point: most of these jobs will go unfilled and the workloads will be passed onto those who've stuck around -- and they won't earn more money because of it.
You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping
I don't have a lot of fond memories from traditional circuses as a kid. I mostly remember being a little bored.

The first time I saw a modern circus (Cirque Du Soleil) I was completely blown away.
Pakistan's government censors blacked out YouTube for most of the planet
Sharing Vespa (Open Source Big Data Serving Engine) at SF Big Analytics Meetup
Survivorship bias means only those blind to sunk costs make it through?
> In the old days you saved up an extraordinary amount of money, bought a Commodore 64, plugged it in, and then had absolutely no idea what to do unless you had books.

While I never got a C64, I did get a Timex-Sinclair 1000, a Timex-Sinclair 2068, and a PC clone in the early-to-mid 1980s, and all of them came with complete BASIC manuals as well as other system documentation.
I'm so glad to be living in Europe.

When it comes to consumer internet services, the US is a 3rd world country, which is kinda odd considering most of the western world does their business there.

I just checked the terms on my 300/300 fiber connection, as well as my (backup, company paid) 25/5 ADSL.

They're almost identical:

* no spamming.
* no racism/unethical behavior.
* no portscanning.
* no illegal downloads/uploads.

Besides that i can use it for whatever i like. They block port 25 though, and you can only get it opened by purchasing a commercial connection. It has a dynamic IP address that only changes when i reboot my modem, which happens once every 2 years or so, so practically static IP :)

The ADSL has all ports open and a staic IP.
Do you think that things after Trump will be better? How much things improved when we changed from Bush to Obama, in most fundamental areas? We are talking about a different party, a different message, even a different skin color if you want. But still wars, economy, surveillance, care about climate and so on kept going in the same direction, and even got worse.

Something else will be a priority for our attention while the trends will keep going as usual, until is already too late to do something, or to force taking desperate measures (i.e. not fully understood geoengineering) that will do even more harm than doing nothing.

People in power don't need to fear the effects of climate change in their lifetimes, they can afford to live comfortably, and even profit over the ones that can't.
Inevitably in these sorts of threads the meme of "bad decisions from humanities majors" comes up but never any supporting data. Best I can tell there aren't that many english, etc majors graduating to account for the amount of student debt being generated. The unfortunate truth is a technology degree is just as likely to leave you with debt and no options (especially if you "go to local university far from a tech hub").

Source for enrollment in humanities falling
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/26/where-have-al...
I think this is an indicator that large centralized companies are starting to see that users' are valuing privacy and this is them signaling that they are part of the solution, when in reality this is more of a publicity stunt or a check box (so they an say, "see, we care about your privacy") than anything.
That's silly. Javascript requires all kinds of knowledge to get started; what does this code mean, how do you hook it into a page, what is DOM, etc. That's a lot to ask of a 10-yr old.

Meanwhile, any 10-yr old can understand this code:

10 PRINT "Hey there Joe"
20 GOTO 10

Boom. Functional program. Instant gratification. That will be the last program this person ever writes that provides such instant reward, but nevermind, that foundational idea that the computer can bend to your will is planted.
No one knows for sure. However it's good to have alternative models to look into if the observational data you eventually get (in this case from the EHT) doesn't match precisely with the mainstream model.
So if I rob your house and show you what I stole I'm suddenly a good guy?
Are there any financial irregularities at Facebook that we don't know of? If not, the SEC can't do shit.
Intel to Support 128GB on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors
Even then we won't do anything, we won't need to.

Huge numbers of people will die, and that will fix the problem.

There are two knobs:

1. climate impact per capita

2. quantity of capita

Through inaction, on a long enough timeline, #2 will sort itself out. It's just ugly and involves a lot of suffering.

That's life.
Well, yeah. How many cattle did we have then? The numbers I found go back to 1960, which was about 750M. Has it doubled in the last century, or quadrupled?

Either way, though, it doesn't seem the problem is getting worse, at least. The question is, can we make it better? Can we reduce the level of greenhouse gasses related to cattle, short of just reducing the number of cattle, which seems more like wishful thinking than a plan.

My thought from earlier is to act to reduce the amount of corn-feeding and encourage pasture feeding, which takes external carbon (fuel and fertilizer from corn farming) out of the equation. Grazing cattle are typically raised on land that isn't useful for more lucrative farming, living on wild pasture or scrub.
This trope again. Yes if you manufacture cars using dirty energy, then the operational payback is on a different starting basis. But the operational CO2 is almost always lower for electric cars. And where it's not, the progress of national infrastructures may flip that during the life of the electric car anyway.

What's not discussed: as the market grows for electric cars, then the market grows for batteries, which then feeds into reduced battery costs, increasing access of battery tech for electric infrastructure markets. Electric cars are good for the future in that way.

Yet this article makes it a question of what vehicle tech to choose, instead of a question of what infrastructure and factory investments to choose. I think my outlook on this is that environment concious consumers should choose electric cars based not only on the vehicle, but also on the decisions their makers elect in their supply chain.
Would rel=nofollow work in that case? Makes me sad, but I'll let it go if they just put something there.
My comment was made in the hopes that someone can interest financial institutions in real 2FA.
FWIW, I learned all these things on my own, including object oriented programming. My blind spot was SQL, and thankfully I learned that in school. I preferred lower level coding and I had to be pushed to see that the performance overhead of SQL was not important compared with the productivity benefits.
We have people like string theorists thinking about higher dimensions in space.

It occurred to me the other day when the dark matter article hit the front page that our equation for gravity works with three dimensions but those dimensions are uniform. I can turn an object with very little effort (literally without doing work) and it’s the same size from our perspective.

How would it work if matter has more dimensions that aren’t proportional, or if space is curved in higher dimensions and the differences are in the noise floor here on earth and in orbit?
“People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design”
Think of sales as technique. The method IBM took from NCR provides a framework for understanding where you are and what you need to do next. "Prospect, survey, demo, proposal, close" Contains psychological truth upon which you can build a machine that pumps money.
Privacy to me isn't letting me download my data, it's not letting others download it. I'm not sure how opening a door keeps others shut more tightly...
It’s a $50 one time fee. You need to call their “premium” service. Not sure if they do it per port or what, but I asked them to open all my ports and verified 25 is accessible (123 udp inbound still blocked for unexplained reasons).

They’re still clueless. I tried to explain that it’s being blocked by AT&T and not my router but eventually I just gave up. Their process involves a logmein session where they take control and mess with your router. Gahd it’s awful.

They also randomly added my “device” (home server) to the DMZ so all of its ports were exposed. Be very careful.
Sears’s radical past: How mail-order subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
> failed to make that clear [...] the burden of additional information to retain is about the semantics applicable to the language itself, not about the tooling that we have build around it for development. [...] knowledge burden that must be retained at all times to be able to make sense of what you are reading

Not lack of clarity I think - it seems there's a real disagreement there. I agree about the burden, and the role of complex semantics in increasing it. But I think of bearing the burden as more multifaceted than being solely about the language. I think of it as a collaboration between language, and tooling, and tasteful coding. For maintenance, the last is unavailable. But there's still tooling. If the language design makes something unclear and burdensome, it seems to me sufficient that language tooling clarifies it and lifts the burden. That our tooling is often as poor as our languages, perhaps makes this distinction less interesting. But a shared attribution seems worth keeping in mind - an extra point of leverage. Especially since folks so often choose seriously suboptimal tooling, and tasteless engineering, and then attribute their difficulties to the language. There's much truth to that attribution, but also much left out.

Though as you pointed out, cognitive styles could play a role. I was at a mathy talk with a math person, and we completely disagreed on the adequacy of the talk. My best trick is "surfing" incompletely-described systems. His best trick is precisely understanding systems. Faced with pairs of code and tooling, I could see us repeatedly having divergent happiness. Except where some future nonwretched language finally permits nice code.
The only problem is you're now arguing that someone who has enriched themselves illegally, stolen assets, or defrauded people can use that money to defend themselves and potentially drain it down to nothing, at which point they claim they can't be expected to pay restitution if they lose. Yeah, no way that won't be abused...

There isn't a perfect system. And your argument that they need every cent of that money to mount a defense might be more than a little overblown.
This is a huge issue because of "price insensitive" buyers. With a large number of people shopping for the biggest name university possible, not the best value, loan availability significantly affects the supply curve.

When faced with an irrational consumer, unfortunately, the rational course of action for a university is to spend money on prestige building items like fancy architecture and football, rather than trying to provide the best education for the money.
It's not actually hard to come up with a valid and understandable explanation from a neural net, or from any other black box decision maker as long as the decision maker is consistent.

Let's take simplified case, to make visualization easier. Suppose the black box is deciding whether to approve mortgages, and it only has three inputs: income, credit score, and mortgage amount.

You can visualize the inputs as points in a 3-dimensional space, each point representing a unique combination of income, credit score, and mortgage amount.

Now imagine in that space we place green dots at all the points that represent inputs that result in approval of the mortgage application. Do nothing at the points for inputs that represent rejected inputs.

Need to give someone an explanation of their rejection? Find their point in that space, and then find points on the green region that are nearest their point, and tell them what would need to change to move their point to those green points.

I'd suggest, in this 3-dimensional space, to look at four green region points. (1) the nearest green point reached moving from their point parallel to the income axis, (2) same but using credit score axis, (3) same but using mortgage amount axis, and (4) the nearest green point.
I just completely broke my sleep. I was in Hong Kong, then Mountain Standard Time and then back to Eastern. My doctor prescribed Zopiclone, so I used it the first couple of nights when I returned. For the first time in my adult life, I have been sleeping 8.5 hours a night. I was usually awake after 6 hours. Occasionally I could get 7.5 but generally with an interruption.
It is going to take some time to get used to and I hope it lasts, but it feels great to make progress reading books on dry subjects on a weeknight or just being alert in the afternoon.

We have so much to learn about the body and sleep.
The Sea Lamprey Society Gathered to Eat the Most Gruesome Animal in History
Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With a Shim from a Soda Can
Most users I know are heavy users (both recreational and medical) and buy once monthly. So that has to be bulk pricing. AFAIK, the government store doesn't offer bulk discounts.
These are really great links, thanks! This put me on a different solution path - reducing the amount of corn-feeding and making cattle feed (especially beef cattle) primarily natural pasture. Get fuel and fertilizer out of the chain.
Long hours in the name of passion / customer obsession
Sorry but none of that has anything to do with OPs request, except for where you say BASIC is terrible.

- Lack of resources (books, mags, etc) -- no longer a problem

- Platform differences and PEEK/POKE -- also not relevant. The Basic OP asks for would presumably have the necessary graphics/audio functions

- Typing is frustrating -- also solvable easily. Just because a system drops you into Basic (aka a shell) doesn't mean you can't have a decent editor.

I very much second OP's request. I'd love a laptop or fullscreen app for my young kids that is just an editor and interpreter.
I've been following this project for a while. I have specifically been interested in replicating the device for my own purposes. I'd like to use something like this to overlay thermal camera data on my vision.
> For example, PUBG has banned over 13 million users since June 2017. With an estimated 350 million player count, that is a large portion of their player base.

I don't find this stat particularly useful. What I'd be more curious to see are statistics like % and rate of game matches significantly impacted by cheating. I don't care if there's 1 cheater or 100 million, but I do care if 5 of 10 game matches I play are ruined by cheating.
And that makes it excusable?
This relates to my other peeve: trying to find the original video when something goes viral. Let's say I hear that Alice was seen telling Carol secrets about Bob. I go to Google/DDG/Youtube and search "Carol Alice secrets Bob" and get several dozen video results. ALL of them are other people trying to repackage the original video with their own commentary. News sites, bloggers, etc.

How do I locate the OG footage?
I believe that this is a very simplistic view. Of course corporations can’t have any feelings, but corporations are still led by human beings who can have truthful views and steer a company such that they do some good. I believe Tim Cook and most of his top managers have good intentions. At least they have been very consistent on some topics like privacy, minority rights and the environment. Is Apple perfect? Of course not. But I have not the feeling they need to do these things just for publicity reasons
The closer you get to the bleeding edge of the technology industry, the more detached you get from "real life", generally.
> I wonder if any government in history has ever been good to its people. But, man, does it really seem like governments now are really fucking the 90% over.

Getting off topic, but I'm from the Nordics, grown-up, and still have this naïve view that governments are for the people and aim to do the best for all citizens. It not all roses here either, but I'm quite happy to pay my share of taxes to keep the civil society running.
Europe’s Attacks on Google Are Backfiring
Yes, but the terminology and implications are different.

You can have a criminal conviction and still vote, for example.
I got into programming to make games, and the platform agnostic BASIC listings were enough for me. The fanciest device usage I did was drawing pictures and making the computer buzzer play tunes.
FAA Traffic Management Anticipates Flying Cars
At the same time:

We don't need to humanize companies.

If they behave nicely because it is profitable that's a win-win in my book.

In fact that is even better than said company being nice because the current CEO is nice :-)
Nicely put!