skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit of works as a good alternative. However, the steep-ish learning curve of it seems to keep the average person away (for the better?)

FB now only serves the following uses for me:

1. Finding housing in a new city (FB groups are still king here)

2. Checking friends Birthdays, and to get in touch with them when I don't have their contact info

3. Checking events happening in my area / generating interest for an event I'm attending

That's it, and I can't wait to find alternatives for each.
But the outside trial counsel for both firms in the San Diego trial might be smarting a bit for missing out on fees for what would have been a huge trial.
Does this functionally change anything though? Both countries are so massive businesses will already be targeting each location. Furthermore, the respective countries are both planning for scale.
I'm just a single data point, but my IG usage has dropped considerably over the last year or so. Too many ads, the non-chronological feed, and "feed clutter" (follow suggestions, Stories reminders) have ruined it for me.
I use a mac. I use scaled resolution. I use firefox. It is faster than chrome since the quantum update.
All of the CVEs give credit to "Chris Coulson of Canonical Ltd.". Nice job Chris. Looks like they've probably developed a fuzzer targeting client packet handling. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more bugs pop up as a result of this attention.
I just went to walkinlabs and got it tested. It's usually much cheaper than going to a doctor for lab testing.
I've been hurt in dreams, in ways that do not appear to have been the real world poking through. It's never been great pain, but it's been real pain or something very close to it. There's also phantom limb syndrome [1]. It's not hard to imagine whatever mechanism is in play there could run even more unfettered when there is no feedback from the body at all.

We do not know that simply being severed from your body is simply experiencing no sensory input of any kind, and actually have a lot of reasons to expect that would not be the subjective experience for very long.

(Bizarrely, the dream pain has nothing to do with anything in real life that should have been pain. Apparently my subconscious is fine with dismemberment or stabbing or whatever, but what really bothers it is removing my orthodontic spacer from the roof of my mouth, which apparently it feels is me trying to remove the roof of my mouth. Subconsciouses are weird.)

[1]: https://www.britannica.com/science/phantom-limb-syndrome
(Boies-Schiller in the case of Apple)
My partner has been employed with the same large international company for 8 years. She had an elected procedure done that is required by law to be fully covered by insurance. She had 3 calls leading up to the procedure with her health insurance company each time asking them if they were certain it would be covered 100%. I thought that this was overkill but she was worried to the point of being paranoid about it. They assured her each time she would not have to pay any money at all for anything.

The procedure was in December. After the procedure she received a 6-figure bill, which she then had to follow up with hours of phone calls back and forth to the insurance company, hospital, and doctor's office. They sent her a revised bill for somewhere around $8,000, and then another revised bill for around $4,000.

The insurance company says it's because the doctor coded the procedure incorrectly. The doctor says the hospital coded it incorrectly. She has had to file an appeal with the insurance company, and the only reason it looks like it will work out is because the insurance company records all phone calls and was able to get records of her original calls before the procedure asking if it would be fully covered. She has still been told to expect that they will deny her first appeal and she'll have to appeal a second time in order to get it covered. This has been causing her immense stress for the past 4 months as she does not have enough money to pay even the $4,000 bill out of pocket.

My experience is that your experience actually is extremely uncommon in America today. Most people who have to interact with the health care system beyond annual checkups have to deal with something like this.
Can anyone explain the population reversal? There's vague references to changing fertility rates, but that doesn't explain the reversal. There are complex economic factors at play and so just observed changes to fertility aren't enough to make the prediction of population reduction. For example, does the model include expected advancements in agriculture, or does the model assume there is some challenges in growing our food supply? Also, China used to have a one-baby policy but I don't think that is still in effect. Does the model include that?

These kinds of models are pretty to look at but rapidly fall apart when you play with base assumptions. The only way to absorb this data is to have an interactive set of adjusters to base data possibilities.
It would be interesting to see the implementation of an Alexa/Google' smart speaker & tablet system to provide support to doctors & nurses. For example:

Doctor - "Smith, please provide checklist for Septal Myectomy"

Smith - "Confirming list for Septal Myectomy?"

Doctor - "Yes"

(Smith raises first point)

Doctor -"Check"

(Smith raises other points until the end of the list)

Smith - "You have completed the checklist for Septal Myectomy, please review it on the screen if you so desire. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Doctor - "Thanks Smith, no need for anything else"

I would be eager to support a project that would provide this kind of support to doctors and other professionals.
In my scenario, I'm decompressing from HDD and piping the decompressed data directly to another process. I may be limited by disk sometimes, but often the data is already in the filesystem cache. To give a concrete example:

zstd -d < compressed.zst | pv > /dev/null == ~330 MB/s

For comparison, pixz with the same data using 32 cores:

pixz -d -p 32 < compressed.xz | pv > /dev/null == 1.15 GB/s

Granted, zstd is far, far more efficient per core, but there are plenty of workloads where I can afford to use a lot of cores for decompression. Also pixz still compresses slightly better than zstd -19, but I'd be willing to trade that for more efficient decompression if I could still have the option of really fast decompression using multiple threads.

Note also that with this particular data, I'm seeing a compression ratio of only about 4.3:1 using zstd -19. I can imagine that zstd would use less CPU when decompressing if the ratio was higher.
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It's just Linux. Stop giving in to Stallman.
And quality transparency isn't that much help either - if you have cancer are you really going to shop around if chemo treatment drug group A is more effective then drug group B? A patient cant even begin to be able to shop around for something like that.
>Bosque programming language is designed for writing code that simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines.

var v: List[Int ?] = List@{1, 2, none, 4};

OK! I think it needs some work. AM I supposed to intuitively know what ? and @ mean?
Explaining half the variation, and the other half?

The point was to draw a connection for the general audience, not present the most scientifically accurate description of a relationship between two variables -- that's what the links to the research are for.
People Wearing AirPods Are Making Things Awkward for Everyone Else
I've never been without health insurance and I was rejected from several insurance carriers pre-ACA. I was on cobra at the time but trying to switch because it was so expensive. But luckily Cobra got me through until the ACA kicked in.
IMO the biggest problem is that you're not really qualified to judge medical practitioners. How am I supposed to know if what they're recommending is actually necessary? The market price of an MRI? How do I know they're not skipping care I should have to offer a lower price? Or if they're offering unnecessary procedures?

The reality is you need an M.D. to make a reasonable evaluation. This is why at an HMO we have primary care physicians. Or in any other country, GPs. They decide if you need specialized care. However, how am I supposed to pick one of them? It's Russian nesting doctors.

It's probably the most complicated thing we have to deal with in our non-professional lives.
Ah - yea that's just plain silly right there. And frustrating bc it throws the meta discussion out the window
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> There is zero rational reason for that fear disappearing.

Yes, there is. Political bravado coupled with distrust of politics in general and mainstream information being what it is today it's very hard for citizens to notice geo-political turmoils.

Personnaly I'd blame the fascination for useless plastic gadgets masquerading as star-trek level tech but I can't be certain.
Rust managed to make some of these high level abstractions compile to fast machine code almost every time. Its quite refreshing to go from Linq/Streams etc to Rust iterators.

So does C++ iterators for that matter but they are not so pleasant to actually write.
Seems like some of it is still CUDA-only, from the AliceVision INSTALL.md [0].

I have to wonder how AMD is letting NVIDIA win so big in academia, when their GPUs are actually quite competitive. I'm beginning to think that they have some management practice or culture which makes it difficult for them to retain software talent, otherwise I can't really understand how they always seem to have a glaring weakness somewhere that they're not addressing.

[0]: https://github.com/alicevision/AliceVision/blob/develop/INST...
Checklists are great; checklist bureaucracy not so much. Sometimes such bureaucracy is necessary.

For example when you are flying a cesnna 172 from the nineteen sixties, you are basically flying a glorified lawn mower. It has procedures for starting up. Not following those will lead to disasters like your engine quitting, or worse self destroying. Hence a lot of checklists in aviation tend to be about engine management. These are important, they keep you alive and save you from high maintenance cost and accidents.

Cars used to be similarly complicated but these days you simply turn them on and drive. Likewise, checklists for modern airplanes that have elaborate engine management software tend to be a lot shorter and also focus more on other things (check the amount of fuel).

Checklist are easy to automate for a lot of use cases and doing so increases safety because computers are a lot better at checking lots of things than we are. After checklists become part of your process and increase your effectiveness, automating them can increase your efficiency.

The analogy in software engineering is replacing release processes with CI and CD. It used to be that people were enduring such things as commit freezes, meetings about blocking issues, go/no-go decisions, etc. This could last for weeks or months. Also the process of actually creating release artifacts and publishing those was a lot of work. These days, some systems release whenever a change is merged to a particular branch. All the checks around this are automated (tests pass). The entire process of releasing can be automated.
One child policy was in effect and Chinese people got used to it. It's been enforced as a social norm and the subsequent generations seldom have more than two kids. You can add China's increased urbanisation, increased work hours and smaller houses/apartments into the mix.
This is not a contradiction with my statement; "nova" is derived from the term "nova stella". :)
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Seems dangerous for the web to mess with the URL bar, I get why Google wants to do this.
> We aren't trying to steal the means of production from you

I mean, workers created them in the first place, so I'm all for "stealing" them back.

But I also wouldn't mind single-payer healthcare in the meantime.
yes the mass of ice sheet is increasing, on the continental interior.

this should not however be interpreted as a change in mass of coastal icesheet. these are two different systems. separated by a mountain range.
It's not inherently a side project, it only has to be one because his department doesn't view this work as a contribution to pure mathematics. Seems shortsighted for a field where progress is often measured in centuries.
True example of the above:

I had been given a task by my manager, in such a way that my coworkers could hear that it was something important I had to get done ASAP.

Half an hour later, I'm heads down working, with earphones in. Very obviously coding. Coworker taps me on the shoulder. "Yes?" "Why aren't you chatting with us?"

I'd like to say I made some clever remark, but at the time I was speechless.

(Please note that I do engage in normal small talk at other times. )
Strongly agreed.

The "what if they wake me up to torture me" scenarios seem like wild catastrophizing to me - if someone has the political power and resources to develop special brain-torture gear, rez me, and keep me alive so they can torture me, they have the political power and resources to kidnap me and torture me with knives and fire as long as they want. It'd probably even be easier for them to do it to my physical body, right here and right now.

It sounds like the real worry is "what if I wake up in a dystopian future". And, of course, once you look at that, the expected value calculation is trivial. Consider the set of futures which have sufficiently-developed research and economy to systematize the operation of and systematically execute on rezzing random frozen brains. Consider the set of futures which have that property but are also dystopian enough to rez brains for the sole purpose of torturing them. Recall that these things are in tension; the kinds of irrationalities that lead a civilization to do that kind of thing will impair them in other ways, sometimes significantly - enmity from less-extreme polities, toxic culture leading to structural inefficiency, etc. You have to reach really far to find that region of the configuration space of possible future worlds.

So look at the expected values. Yes, being tortured for a while would suck. But being alive again, and possibly even biologically immortal, has the expected value of an entire new life. And the probabilities say that being rezzed is far more likely in a good future than a bad future. Literally every stage of the expected-value calculation says that being rezzed can be expected to be a win.
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We had one of these when I was a kid in the late 1970s. My dad built what was essentially a modem and used it to connect the teletype to an old Motorola single channel radio with a crystal tuned to the amateur radio (Ham radio) teletype repeater in Dallas, Texas. There was a community of Ham radio teletype (RTTY) users in Dallas with similar setups that formed what was essentially a chat room. There was even one Ham that had a PDP-11 minicomputer connected to his system that acted like a chatbot. You could send a message to it to get weather reports and a few other interesting functions. When I would come home from school each day, I would find several feet of paper had come out of the teletype, and I would scan it to see what had been said while I was gone. If I wanted to contribute and the channel was clear, I would flip the transmit switch and start typing. Everything I typed would appear on all of the other rigs that were connected.

We could also connect the modem to my dad's HF radio and chat with RTTY operators all over the world. I would spin the tuning dial until I heard the distinctive RTTY tones. I would adjust the tuner until the pitch sounded correct and then turn on the teletype. Often garbage would come out until I got it tuned in perfectly, and then I might see someone calling to start a conversation, or a conversation already in progress. Sometimes I would catch a teletype art (ASCII art using 5-bit Baudot code) picture in progress. If it looked interesting, I would stay tuned in case they repeated the transmission. This took a while because these machines operated at 60 words per minute (~6 characters/second).

After a while, my dad upgraded to a Model 19, which had a paper-tape punch and reader. This allowed me to create my own teletype art, so I worked several hours creating an R2-D2 that I was very proud of. I sent it to several people and was thrilled one day when I was tuning around and recognized my R2-D2 being sent by someone else.

When my dad later brought home an Apple II, he was able to connect the Apple II to the modem, so we replaced the Model 19 with a Model 28 RO (Read-only), which did not have a keyboard or paper tape, but that was okay because we used the Apple II. Because modern computer printers like an Epson MX-80 were rather expensive then, we used the teletype as our printer, and I even turned in some school papers printed on the teletype in all-caps on yellow paper torn off from a roll. (I'm sure my teachers loved that.) When we eventually did get an Epson printer, it was hard to justify keeping the bulky teletype, so it was sold. We still did some RTTY now and then on the Apple II, but it wasn't quite the same as having the teletype machine left on all day. Of course, most of the rest of the RTTY community was also moving to microcomputers, and the hobby began to rapidly change. Then I went off to college to study computer science and haven't done much with amateur radio since then.
Emojis are too jocular for the tone we are trying to strike here. They lower the level of discourse down to something more like Reddit or Twitter.
It will with integers, but not floating point. All compilers will use simd registers and instructions for floating point but its only using the 1 lane there. its not really vectorized.

rust has no way to pass ffast-math flag (unless that changed recently) which will enable this for C/C++
So the issue isn’t with checklists, it’s with policy.
Tulsi Gabbard.
Did you verify the functionality of your cucumber-implementation-generating code with cucumber? :)
A Student-Debt Crisis Hits Hardest at Historically Black Colleges
Why isn’t Verified by Visa mandatory everywhere? Isn’t that enough?
> If I could choose to just pay more in taxes

One of the fallacies in play is buying insurance is put in one category. Whereas paying taxes for insurance is another. The first is 'good' because it's 'free market' and the second is 'bad' because it's the government taking your money's.
As someone who lives in Central Asia (with all the corruption in our region, our drug enforcement is very stiff) and someone who visited San Francisco and Seattle several times I certainly agree with you. US government (CIA) in fact was actively spreading drugs in US in 1970s. So you should not expect consistency in enforcement of drug laws in the country. US also has a fair amount of corruption, it is not Europe after all.
Adobe Lost $80K a Day to Cloud Costs
Weird name that translates to Beppo Hole in English despite their claim to "My buddy's basement" in the article.

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=it&t...
Your brain is one of the first 543 experiments in a private laboratory. Researchers convinced ethical board that brains were not really alive. Brains were kept alive average 3 years, but no "contact" was officially attempted to avoid legal or ethical issues. There are rumors of some extracurricular activity happening.

Your contribution is not wasted however. First brain that was able to talk to the world and received full human rights was Peter Thiel's brain.
>"Because if you really thought about it, you'd realize that you have so much in common with the religious zealots of old (and be so horrified by this) that you'd have to go home and completely re-think your belief system."

You've just successfully described one of my main hobbies. As far as any secular tradition goes, I am firmly in the Diogenes camp.
I was hoping for good Linux support because it's a Thinkpad.

Although some of this might be teething problem of Ryzen CPU. I have 2500 on a desktop machine and it was a bit unstable until I upgraded BIOS. It's seems to work fine with 4.20 kernel.
I'm hoping that any hardware bugs in your system would be worked out within 6 months.

What kind of WiFi card do you have installed?

I remember in the years past when buying T-series I needed to pay extra to get Intel wifi instead of a card branded IBM. I'm not sure if that option is even available with this model. At least wifi card seem to be replacable (but I did not look at the documentation closely).
Equals is a verb AND a adjective though. So I disagree it's notoriously bad to use it as assignment. This is a situation solved entirely with = (make these equals) and == (are these equals?).

>Thus, x = y does not mean the same thing as y = x.

Unless it does, or should.

The specfic argument you're arguing here is on that is just a simple syntax. You don't like = for assignment, but I do. You like = for comparison, but I like ==... To be fair === is dumb.

You're arguing that point<~(y=value) makes sense, and I'm still not seeing it.
This is a bulk record update, according to what I can find in the docs. It's an atomic operation -- meaning, if instead of updating one field, you updated thirty fields, all would appear to take place as one operation.

Obviously someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Probably so small that no one will bother retrieving it, since, according to another comment, it landed in the Atlantic.
I'm coming from a CS perspective.

If they are successful at a top university and leave to try other things (usually startups), then they will have no problems going back to academia. Sometimes it is even viewed positively.

For example, right now Carnegie Mellon has been seeing a flock of their faculty leave to go to tech companies or to do their own startups. Other universities would fight over a successful ex-CMU (or UW!) prof to come to their institution.

Depending on their level of success, they may not get back to a top 5 university, but some other R1 university would gladly take them!
Does your local airport sell passports and prescription medication?

I just fundamentally don't understand the statement, "If I forget something it probably was not that important". How does one follow from the other?
You only need the large gap once you've accelerated up to a much higher speed.

Going from small gap while standing in lights to large gap at a higher speed cannot be reached in unison.

The later cars must inevitably accelerate slower or the first cars must accelerate faster in order for the larger gaps to appear. So even if all cars did in fact start rolling at the exact same time when the light turns green the acceleration of any tailing car is bounded by some safety margin as a function of speed.