skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, 2. + 5. + 6. might be the sources of bipolar disorders? Brain chemistry out of balance means that activation patterns are being modulated differently than before, and stress causes that in one way or another. Changed modulation might trigger changing/cycling states of peace or alertness, shrinking or widening associative activation. But why are some people more susceptible to stress than others? What is different?
A lot? I know Warren Buffett has similar views, and I've seen other very wealthy liberals claim taxes and climate change were big concerns. When people get very wealthy, they seem to think less about their finances and more about their legacy and public perception, and honestly when you're that wealthy, you have so much that taxes don't really matter anymore.

There are a lot of very wealthy philanthropists, and I think that's because people seek meaning in their life once they no longer get benefit from earning more.
The problem is that spending is at 38.95%, down from 43.75% in 2010. UK Government spending in real terms is best described at a plateau for the past 10 years rather than slashed. The Government and Opposition were both happy (for different political reasons) to portray what we experienced as mass cuts. They weren't compared to what happened when the IMF imposed greater cuts in a single year back in the 70s.

The credit crunch destroyed government revenues, in response the Government ballooned the deficit rather than impose massive cuts. They've spent the past decade not growing spending so that GDP growth has caught up - in the process massively increasing the national debt.

It's great that young people are getting involved in politics. One can't but help think of the much attributed quote: if a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.
I think NTP uses some statistical tricks to get better synchronization than you'd expect over slow, laggy internet links. Possibly something like that could work.
" loud enough that conversations are difficult because this causes patrons to buy more drinks"

I know that I am weird but this makes me just want to run away,.
So, you agree with me then. You can't say "What do you call a sleepy cat? A /grumbea-gle/ (grumpy-beagle)!" It's a portmanteau, sure, but it is not really even close to the input. Using word2vec here is probably wrong, or should have different pruning for word variance. It's a flaw of the technique and choices of the author.
It wasn't just a one-time shock from WWII. The population of East Germany (which includes most of the Berlin metro area) declined more or less continuously through its entire existence. Out-migration to West Germany and elsewhere was a big part of this, and birth rates were also very low.
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> Just imagine being alive in the 80s with muzak and really crappy jingles play

I worked in a chain supermarket in the 80s and to this day I know the words and melodies of all the hits of that decade, but not the names of the songs or the artists.
This topic is crazy, seems to resurface as some revelation, despite being contested, every six months or so, for years.
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"famous" is the first thing you latch onto at the start of this thread. You mention it repeatedly throughout. You've labeled it #1 a comment or so ago. I'm trying to tell you it's a minor, silly misunderstanding, largely on your part.
The way I remember it the store has to buy rebroadcast a license for each song.
>"Seconds according to who?"

According to a very accurate pulsar, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar#Precise_clocks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_clock
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Ironically, there are sound loops that remote workers use to make it sound like they're working in a coffee shop (sans music)

https://coffitivity.com
Knowing all the allegations that surface against people these days, it's pretty chilling to think about all the stuff like this that was just swept under the rug or condoned for centuries.
You're describing intelligent decision-making and prudent action, not consciousness.

We are conscious even when doing nothing, and computers show us that systems showing some sort of 'intelligence' needn't be conscious.

(I'm being very imprecise about the meaning of 'intelligence' here, mind.)
Intuit Notice of Unauthorized Access to Tax Returns [pdf]
According to relativity, you cannot get two different observers to agree on any kind of universal time, or even the order in which two events occurred.

Observer A says that event X happened before Y.

Observer B says that event Y happened before X.

And they're both right from their POV.
>Problem solved

If the problem were "if only we had $2B more we could solve so many system problems." Of course, it's not, so no, no problems were solved even hypothetically.
Really neat! Because it doesn't rely on the video image data this would work for podcasts with subtitles (if they exist), right?
We can't even do that, the biggest GPUs today are at the reticle limits of foundries> They literally can't be made bigger. Of course we can still go the chiplet way but...
It's as if these people are cannon fodder. I never imagined that they would deserve pity, but they clearly do.

I always figured the Facebooks of the world needed more moderation. But this makes me think that maybe the only effective move is to target further upstream and somehow constrain submission or account creation.

I can't see how this ends any way other than with network authentication of computers with signed bootloaders that can stipulate the operator's identity, paired with criminal statutes prohibiting operating a computer under someone else's identity or defeating the authentication/encryption that makes it possible.
I daily a 2010 Lenovo T420s. Replaced the disc drive with a solid-state drive and the CD drive with an auxiliary battery pack. Maxed out RAM. Runs Debian 9.x with dwm.

Perfectly adequate for software development. On the odd occasion I need more, I shell into a virtual private server.
An F# like language hosted within Rust would be a dream. With a GC and stack allocation, optional lifetime annotations when you want to remove the GC overhead.
Maybe if I like 'x' brand, I'll also enjoy their store playlist... could be the key to finding lots of great music.

It actually is. My wife has the sort of job where she spends a lot of time in high-end retail stores, and at that level the music is very important so she's very aware of it.

It's not just selecting the right music, but making sure your company isn't playing the same songs as the competition.

CBS Sunday Morning had a nice long piece about this last year.
* A organisation's requirements for data processing is a function of the organisations data processing capabilities and always greater

* All software has bugs, no software is inefficient

* A programmer's work is never done
Agreed. The bandwidth is overpriced. None of this should be served from the cloud, but from a CDN instead.

That being said. I wouldn't try to push the limits of Digital Ocean too much. I have an ex coworker who looked into moving a compute grid to Digital Ocean, pinning a number of instances to full CPU, he quickly got contacted by support to stop before they shut down the account.
I think everyone does this from time to time to some extent. I definitely do it with more technical jargon, and I often see other people do it. For example I will forget the official jargon and say something similar, but that will confuse someone who has the jargon embedded in their minds. Often I will resort to showing them the bit of the program or code I am talking about.

As for a solution. I don't know really. You could try toastmasters for public speaking, and practice speaking more slowly than you would normally speak in speeches. The funniest speeches I heard there were from someone who had a stammer and had to pause between each sentence to do a breathing exercise, but he used those pauses for building suspense in the story.
This is already done.
Well, you can be sure that Russia won't share your data with the US or UK unlike the Aussies! ;)
"Better than Reed-Solomon" depends on what you mean. R-S is an optimal erasure code and for storage applications, erasure code is usually what is desired.

In terms of turbo codes, I think the CCSDS turbo code is out of patent, at least 5,446,747 has been expired for over 5 years.

https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/101x0b4s.pdf
They're not trying to drive traffic out, they're trying to discourage loitering. If you're there to buy something you're likely to just go in and buy it despite the problem. And if you're on the fence, you're likely to just make a hasty decision instead of considering it if it's too loud to avoid.

The big impediment though, is loiterers. If there is a problem with people loitering in or in front of your store that tends to drive away more people than the music will.
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I am amazed by the brilliant application of 8B/10B encoding to recover clocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_recovery

Such a brilliant system.
Computerphile did a video recently giving a 10,000 foot overview of Reed Solomon codes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRMaEAFLE0
Thanks for that. I hadn't come across the idea of a sync byte.
For anyone else, the binary representation of E5 is 11100101. No matter where you start reading you're always going to know whether you are reading from the start of the byte or not. Contrast with null (00000000) its impossible to know where you've started from.

This has a bit of info ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/misc/disk_encoding.doc.txt
Another Seed refugee here. Haven't heard the best things about Azlo, so still looking for options. Has anyone tried https://banknovo.com/ ?
I attended university in the very early days of MP3s. In a microcontroller lab, the TAs hooked one of the lab computers to a pair of speakers and set up their collection of MP3s to loop indefinitely. I still remember the whole playlist:

* White Wedding by Billy Idol

* I Am The Walrus by the Beatles

I may have the order reversed.
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I had a similar experience working at Macys during the holidays many years ago.
I had to listen to about 100 different versions of whatever that “last christmas I gave you my heart” song is every day, and to this day it drives me bonkers when I hear it.
This is cool.

I am constantly impressed by ffmpeg and it capabilities.

Last week I was able to make it act as a proxy for live streaming video that reduced the volume of ad-breaks by 50% automatically by listening for SCTE35 cue packets in the stream and adjusting a volume filter accordingly.

My housemate has a reality TV addiction, and the ads were getting on my nerves. I just intended to see if it was possible, but I had a POC running in about 1/2 an hour.
I have a hope that people will eventually develop immunity to conspiracy theories after falling for enough of them and eventually seeing them disproved.

Conspiracy theories don't appeal to the rational. A conspiracy is built on an emotional foundation and the 'logic' is just scaffolding to hold the emotional payload. A lot of people (but (i don't know what proportion) are susceptible to emotional addiction and contagion.

It's not wise or safe to assume that people can/will/should just develop cognitive resistance (though I totally understand your hope that that would happen). Sadly we have abundant and growing evidence that it is relatively easy for bad actors to cultivate antisocial behavior up to and including murderous rampages.
Occam's Razor does not abide false explanations.
I've noticed this same thing when I go to restaurants or some cafes to work, especially chains. I find myself so annoyed by the music in just a few hours, I have to leave. But maybe that is the point? I feel sorry for the employees, though.
What I meant is if the US government wants to access data in a German datacenter it can either try via a warrant which I imagine would not be legally enforceable in the EU (at least not without the cloud provider breaking EU law), or via hacking which makes any law irrelevant.
UVA is what causes skin cancers. Recommending or dismissing UVA exposure is irresponsible, especially in places with tons of UV radiation. Dermatologists go extra to teach people to choose sunscreen with good UVA protection, meanwhile Applied Science (one of my favourite youtubers) - “UVA penetrates regular window glass; hey its not to be worried about”...
InnoDB as a service!
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It is not though and I don't feel like I'm wasting my time. Audio stream in the background and pitching in when I need to is perfect -- I learn all that I need to learn and I can multitask. It is the same concept as listening to podcasts whilst driving, albeit a bit more interactive. You can see why it'd be incredibly awkward to do this via video.
Can we stop this tired rhetoric? Yes ideally everyone would keep their system up to date 100% of the time, however it is not a good thing that users have that control stripped away from them, especially when these updates can actually have _adverse_ effects on their systems cough randomly deleting files cough.

I may disapprove of users not updating their systems, but I'll defend to the death their right to not do so.
I'm only distantly aware but didn't it start getting a bit crazy in the mid 90s and even worse in the late 90s?
To do so they would have to pop the registrar's account/service, not an individual domain owner's.
Also, most descriptions of our ancestors show them to have been far more hairy than we are.
And also scary is the reverse where everything you do when you're 12 now is likely going to be archived forever.
Awesome! According to the description of the internals this only works with offsets and doesn't adjust the subtitle's playback speed. I think playback speed variations are not that broad, it's usually caused by playing a subtitle written for a given FPS played back on a different FPS video. It might worth it to try common FPS ratios at once and keep the best match.
If you want to go way down that rabbit hole, it's an active topic of conversation in the Haskell community right now how to break up IO into more granular pieces than what the IO type natively provides, where a function is either "pure" or it's a dirty rotten effects producer, and no middle ground in between.

Although, even a stray print inside an STM transaction could actually do you a lot of damage, since "print" is actually a fairly expensive operation. I've written all sorts of programs in my life that were technically bottlenecked not on reading the input, writing the output, or any of the processing in-between, but on the printing it was doing. And, relatedly, every community that tries to write a really blazingly fast web server in their language runs into a bit of a wall around the mere act of logging the hits. (Even just the date computation starts to bottleneck things, but the writing does too.)
If I did my math right that's 0.178 seconds per year. As long as everyone's handling time the same way you shouldn't have a problem, but it's enough to be noticeable if someone forgets about it.

I suppose the more noticeable oddness for most people would be that the speed-of-light delay in communications from Earth to Mars varies so much. Around 3 light minutes up to 22 depending on where they are in their orbits.
In the end, the only people remaining would still be those who thought it was ok to reproduce. Unless a world-wide authoritarian government implemented strict population control and decided who would reproduce or not. Scary thought.
Neat. Is there a reason not to tune MySQL to this for all instances?
Yes I would have switched even if not for the new law just for that reason.
The question is: does America care about international law and treaties or will they just do whatever they want?
Ten years ago I knew the answer to this question. Today not so much.

This is why the EU should hedge its bets and keep the door open for Chinese companies.
As a purchaser, you're not bound to simply abdicate responsibility if your contractor misbehaves. You have the right and ability to choose contractors whose values are aligned with yours, and refuse to do business with those whose values don't. And you can reflect those values in the terms and conditions of the contract.

See, for example, Apple's supplier code of conduct: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

Consider for yourself: if you hired a contractor to remodel your house, and you found out that the contractor wasn't giving their employees bathroom breaks, would you simply shrug your shoulders?
For me, it's:

"L-A-I-N-G. Laing."

(looking once over vaguely yellow skin) "alright, Mr. Liang."

The two spellings come from entirely different cultures! Same with "Lee" (as in Robert E. and Bruce).
I don’t think that there is a quick fix, but I have found the following useful;

1. Think in billboards (Construct your explanation in less than 16 words)

2. Increase your vocabulary. Try wordthink.com daily.

3. Hold off. Don’t speak just yet. Seek to compact your explanation.

4. Reframe it as an analogy or metaphor

5. Even if your audience isn’t a 5 year old, try to describe your idea in a way that they would understand.

Good luck!
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Even bad canned tomatoes are probably better than whatever fresh plastic balls you can find in your market.
I have never been the kind to want to work from a cafe, but I know plenty who do it. Fair enough. I'm more of the kind who wants to meet friends to have a conversation at a cafe, which we really can't do when the seats are gobbled up by people who are camped out there all day long. There are cafes where this doesn't happen, and they seem to be the ones without free wifi. I guess there's a market for each.
I like that Mint keeps dependencies to a minimum. I wanted to use the Gun client in the past, but couldn’t because Gun and Cowboy would depend on different versions of Cowlib (this is less of a problem now that Cowboy 2 is well supported in Phoenix). Instead I used HTTPoison, but the way it wraps Hackney makes it a bit annoying to understand and debug, and the pooling can cause problem.

Mint looks lower level, but with a clean, well-documented API which should be a great building block in the future. Congrats Eric and Andrea!
I would totally not be surprised given how non-frowned upon the practice is culturally but I do wish the article had something more material to present than A alleges B of doing X.

http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/scoreboard18.html Huawei spends more in R&D than Apple or Intel so I wouldn't automatically assume everything they do is stolen.
There aren't actually that many people who can afford Afghan Bagel. Shops catering to niche interests mostly get started because the owners overestimate their chances of success. They try to attract customers for a few months but fail to turn a profit and eventually close the shop. The landlord doesn't care, because there will always be another fool with more dreams than business sense.

In my neighborhood, all kinds of hip coffee shops and boutiques keep opening and close just as fast. The only ones who hold out for longer have been there for decades, so they're probably protected by the cap on rent increases. It also helps to be an ordinary baker rather than specializing in Afghan Bagel, because that way they can get enough customers to keep the business afloat.
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Just a few months ago I replaced nearly the same laptop (Thinkpad x61 in my case, with SSD and 4GB RAM upgrades).

It has served me well for 6 years (I bought it secondhand), but it started to definitely show its age.

It started to have difficulties playing youtube videos and the like, these consuming a lot of CPU, and consequently battery life started to drop to below 2 hours (plus the aging battery didn't helped), and fan noise started to get somewhat annoying.
It also had some scars like marks on the screen or partially broken keys (I've not necessarily treated it well, compressing it in bags or having dropped it on more than one occasions).

It is still usable, and I will convert it for other uses (mpd server probably). But it was time to replace it with a newer laptop, the new one is a secondhand Thinkpad x250, and it's definitely an improvement, quiet, more powerful, 6 to 8 hours autonomy. I hope it will last about as long as the x61 that served me so well.
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An even harder and cooler problem to solve would be finding extra scenes. Sometimes subtitle or movie have slightly different "cut" (e.g. directors cut) and there are some extra scenes added. A similar algorithmic approach could be used to solve this problem as well.
An activation function is not the only part of an artificial neuron, there's also the weighted input aggregation. Also, it's well known and understood that artificial neurons are biologically inspired, but are not in fact, neurons themselves.
Ted Nelson: Computer Lib / Dream Machines (1975) [pdf]
I kind of hate how they play up how little these folks are being paid in Arizona relative to how much FB employees are being paid in California. Yes, it's not a lot of money regardless, but it's frustrating that people either complain about centralizing jobs in an unaffordable area, but then when they contract out to cheaper places, they're underpaying people.

Even in Phoenix, yes, I think $28k is being underpaid for this job, but you can't tell me they wouldn't also call them underpaid at twice the money, and take the opportunity to compare that salary to a Menlo Park salary.