skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site has followed the case closely and goes through a lot of the evidence in the linked items. In general, the defendants appeared to go over a line by asserting that the arrest of a shoplifter was based on racial profiling when there was utterly no evidence that the bakery had profiled anybody and when the evidence appeared open-and-shut that shoplifting had occurred (as the guilty pleas eventually confirmed). The other potentially inflammatory element is the huge impact the protests/boycott had on the bakery, essentially almost destroying its business. When you put it all together, it becomes a hard case to defend and the verdict reflects that. At the same time, this is a preliminary report on the verdict and I am sure more details/analysis will follow.
This reminds me of the following creature from the Magic: The Gathering "Unhinged" joke expansion [1]:

Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental

[1] https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multive...
I think the difference is that with a Facebook or Google login, companies could also easily just require that they get permission to see the user's email address (which isn't super uncommon to see with OAuth logins), so they wouldn't need continual access to OAuth after the first login (unless a user switched to a new email address and stopped checking the old one, which I think is somewhat rare).

I totally agree with your point that this is arguably a good thing, though; although I don't personally own or use any Apple products, there are fairly few services I'd want to sign up for that I'd want to ensure that they had my real email, and I'd be happy to make sharing my email address an opt-in choice rather than the default.
The linked article has a photo that shows many people walking on that controlled access highway, many right in the middle. Were they all arrested?

It's orthogonal to the general right to travel freely, but the story does demonstrate how overly broad procedural laws end up being selectively and inappropriately enforced to persecute under the color of law.
Google doesn't sell your data. They sell adds to companies that they show to you. The companies never see your data, and it's effectively Google's most valuable resource. They have far more reason to keep it safe than Apple. Doesn't Apple sell ads as well, btw?

Also, you may want to check the news about Apple selling data ...
Maybe We’re Not Doomed After All
First comment on the site has link to intersting article with same title https://everything2.com/title/Humans+are+the+sex+organs+of+t...
I am surprised I never see mention of http://synergyaircraft.com/ when aircraft efficiency comes up here. The designer/builder knows his stuff, and the models and tests have proven the double box tail is incredibly efficient.

I really hope they manage to finish the prototype and get it flying!
Not indicated in the current headline is that it appears that Make Magazine is halting as well. From the first paragraph:

> [...] Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as [...] Maker Faire, [has laid] off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations.
Yes segmentation faults have never been known to lead to security vulnerabilities. It's perfectly fine to use the nightly build in a production web application. Why even have a stable build. Also there's probably a really good reason why the macros rocket.rs depends on aren't in the stable builds, don't you think?

I want to also say rocket.rs is amazing, and I don't at all fault all the amazing things the contributors are doing. It's a great project, with just superb features and support. I think they should keep going and eventually rocket.rs will be an amazing choice for web developers who want all the benefits of rust. Yes of course they should care about application security.

What I do fault is people now who are going to run a production application with a binary built with a nightly compiler. They are doing a disservice to their users, to their fellow coworkers, and any investors if they have any. There's no sane reason for pitching rocket.rs using experimental features of rust as a part of any project on which people's jobs and users' data depend on.
I'm 22, and grew up in Australia -- the concept of singular "they" never sounded strange to me growing up (but I also don't ever recall being specifically taught that it was correct or incorrect). My parents remarked that it was weird that English had this concept which was so foreign to them -- but they probably ran across it when they were getting more fluent in English.

I've never met someone (in person) who has had a strong opinion against the use of singular "they" (though I do know they clearly exist, Stallman being an obvious example). I wonder if it's a cultural difference between where I live in Australia and the US, or if I happened to fall into a filter-bubble of people who aren't against the concept.
It's a pretty easy product to land when you control the hardware, the OS, the developers, and to a large extent, the users.
This is going to sound really basic, but a good start might be just to reproducibly generate and measure some signals: DC, AC, etc. Make an LED blink. Measure the voltage across the LED as a function of time. Get used to seeing a graph of voltage versus time, and interpreting it. Hook it up to a microphone and talk to it. Measure the headphone output of your PC.

This is all about just learning to think in terms of signals (static and as a function of time) and how they are measured. Try to predict what's going to happen, and see what you get.
Shit doesn't make money.
>Silicon area is not a problem anyways anymore. Power and heat on the other hand...

Yes, so then why are ARM chips in mobile devices approaching x86 performance with an order of magnitude less power? C̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶a̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶u̶n̶k̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶r̶a̶r̶e̶l̶y̶-̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶i̶l̶i̶c̶o̶n̶ ̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶s̶u̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶n̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶m̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶d̶o̶m̶i̶n̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶e̶x̶c̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶s̶c̶a̶l̶e̶s̶?̶
Yes, unfortunately they have some shortcomings that with experience may go away. I was thinking of small tangent arrows or even some kindof stereoscopic pattern that pops up the elevation.
Waiting for informed comments on this one. =)
Hah. You've gotta be rich to be poor.

Massive savings are unlikely in a government or other public role where you can get tremendous matching (14% on 6% investment) in 401k.

I would have been starving myself for a mediocre payoff in a few decades if I'd stayed in research. $40-odd-k with a $2000/mo take-home after insurance and taxes made it hard to save for a down payment in an area with a $250k median home price while trying to keep up my IRA. Not to mention you lose money every year because the state doesn't always grant COL increases.

I lived off of $20/mo 6Mbit DSL that I had to cancel for a month every half year and then renew so I didn't have to pay $60/mo, drove a 10 year old car, didn't own a smartphone, never took a vacation, and cooked all of my meals while shopping only at Costco and the local ethnic markets. It still cost $18,000 to afford a year of life.

Oh yeah, student loans. It's like forgetting you have cancer. After a while it becomes part of your identity.

108k at retirement is nothing. You can lose that in one trip to the hospital, one unlucky year in whatever overvalued market you invested in, a few years of predatory rent agreements or having to help raise your grandkids. To someone with the kind of wealth you're thinking of, that's like the $25/mo I send to my checking so my bank doesn't close the account.
That strikes me as sort of like dmca spam you see from music companies...
This work uses conditional computation to allow for "Outrageously large" networks which may work better in practice but which will be even harder to understand.

I'm very interested in working on using this same sort of conditional computation to make reasonably sized neural networks easier to understand. Has anyone seen papers on this sort of work?
I agree that “who wrote this” is dangerous, and git blame is a terribad name. I will say though, if you can avoid value judgements, then knowing who wrote a block of code is super valuable in a legacy code base. I’ve found that every dev I’ve ever worked with has very real strengths and weaknesses. And knowing who wrote a piece of code can drastically reduce the time it takes me to find hard bugs. It often goes something like, so and so tends to forget certain kinds of edge cases, but they never seem to screw up this kind of logic... so I bet the problem is related to... ah found the problem. But never blame someone for creating bugs, unless it’s really egregious, and then, only if you can help them with better habits going forwards.
I was reading the book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" by Richard Feynman, where he describes being on the committee investigating the loss of the Challenger Space Shuttle.[1]

What I found interesting was his take on the software system:

"To summarize then, the computer software checking system and
attitude is of the highest quality."

At first I thought, "wow, software is getting a pass."

But then mulling it over, I realized that software is almost easy compared to the unpredictability, unreliability and untameable stubbornness of the physical world.

[1] https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge...
Just the ordinary dictionary definition. Using evidence and arguments to establish a fact or truth.

Of course the arguments and evidence that you use to prove your truth must also be proven themselves, and so and and so forth. No matter what it is you’re trying to prove, there are only three possible outcomes. Circular reasoning, infinite regression, or stopping at an arbitrary point (usually described as an axiom). This is known as the munchausen trilemma.

Although this question has lead me to see that my previous argument is incomplete. It is possible to believe a truth without faith. That is, through ignorance. A failure to scrutinize your belief sufficiently to understand that it is based on an unprovable axiom, and is thus an act of faith. People who debate the merits of science vs religion tend to be ignorant of this, equally on both sides.

Nothing about what I’m arguing is even remotely controversial. It would be a part of any entry level course on logic at any university.
The premise given previously that counting machines were culpable seems a stretch. Given IBM made firearms for the US.
They would have to release the whole thing to come into compliance with the license, but they are not obligated to do so.
That’s a pretty immediate response, if indeed the data is correct. Stop all flights and reduce temps by a few degrees.
As one who is slightly past the noob stage in embedded systems, my impression is that the device can't run a stored program on board. In other words, it's not an Arduino.

At the same time, an Arduino is not this. An Arduino can make measurements and generate signals, but doesn't come with pre-written support software if you just want to use it for that purpose.

For this reason, you might actually use something like this electronics lab alongside something like an Arduino, and use one to observe and measure the behavior of the other.
Technically DragonFlyBSD was the evolution of a non-SMP kernel, though indeed they've reorganized enough that it more than qualifies as "engineered for SMP."

I think the Haiku kernel was also? At any rate it certainly is now, in much the way DragonFlyBSD's was if nothing else.
You can create an account trillionpairs and access the downloads. It's free and instant.

It's the Asian subset, 4 files, about 300 Gigs.

http://trillionpairs.deepglint.com/overview

addl info

https://megapixels.cc/datasets/msceleb/
I absolutely do deny that. Of the many healthcare companies I worked at, small 50-200 people shops and massive F500 companies and everything in between, I don't think HIPAA* made any kind of material difference in their security maturity.

The companies that were actually good at security merely used HIPAA as a starting point, and sometimes had to divert resources away from actual security efforts just to meet redundant HIPAA audits. They would just as easily get by with any of the other myriad of security frameworks out there.

The companies that were bad at security either: 1) mostly ignored HIPAA because in many cases it's easier to just buy insurance to cover the cost of a breach, 2) viewed HIPAA as a legal matter and got lawyers involved, who many times actively impeded security infrastructure efforts (fines are less for a HIPAA breach if you "weren't aware" you were doing anything wrong, which leads to companies intentionally avoiding security assessments or altering them to read "everything is fine!" even when they know it's not), or 3) viewed HIPAA as a checklist and once they achieve HIPAA compliance, they think their security is good enough and stop investing in it (hint: achieving HIPAA compliance does not mean you have good security. not even close).

I certainly do contend that HIPAA has not benefited the security of the healthcare industry as a whole. IME, it may have very well hurt it.

* - I'm speaking specifically of the HIPAA security rule and it's effect on organizations' security maturity. In other areas, like patient privacy and disclosure rules, it does seem to have had an effect closer to what is intended.
The original poster said you were paying a “significant markup” for Apple computers and I specifically mentioned the $2100 iMac Pro - 16Gb 6 Core i5 with a 256GB SSD. Seeing the monitor by itself would be $1300. That leaves an $800 budget for an equivalent computer.

So define “significant” and I’m
Not building a computer myself like it’s the 90s flipping through Computer Shopper.
refactoring is a very appropriate term here. how is it bad or costly? it should be done constantly, every day. if i can make myself less full of shit at least a tiny bit today, i will take it.

having seen many characters in the line of duty, the clear pattern is - if someone is not afraid to say "i was wrong" or "i am not the smartest guy", then there is no doubt who is the smartest guy in the room.
On the ground the gear is compressed. It is extended as it hangs down before touchdown. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/30583/how-much-...
Which I would instantly lose and never have with me when I need them.

If I could leave the adapter always attached that would be one thing, but Macs, game consoles, and other devices I use don't have lightening ports.
Short summary of the GPT2-related points from this article as it is quite long:

1. GPT2 is the next inevitable step in the trend of AI-generated content, and powerful organizations are already capable of these things

2. Delegating your trust to algorithms or other groups is not a good solution to fake news

3. Humans are still smart and will be able to adapt

Actual GPT2-1.5B replication post: https://medium.com/@NPCollapse/replicating-gpt2-1-5b-86454a7...

On a side note, I'm still amazed that the NYT is able to uphold its curated public reputation so well that it is still consistently used as an example of an organization that would never dare publish something low-quality.
I found it interesting is that PG&E was recently given the go-ahead to TURN OFF POWER during high wind situations.

Not that there aren't maintenance and management problems, but allowing power to be turned off seems like a no-brainer but maybe management didn't have that option before.
This reminds me of Django’s select_related.

You can get pretty far with select-related and prefetch_related alone, but sometimes there’s a need to break out SQL in order to get past some kind of performance barrier.

I started my career in Django without any SQL background and then moved to a financial company where everything was done in MSSQL.

If I never have to write or read a SQL query again, I would consider that a good thing. Although I had a few fun learning experiences.
Welcome to the Age of One-Shot Miracle Cures That Can Cost Millions
Whatever format you choose, I'd like to suggest that you include a small bit of identifying info at the beginning of the number. For example, if your company name is Fictitious Enterprises, your confirmation numbers will always begin with "fe", as in fe7623. Or, have the confirmation numbers always begin with, say, "88", as in 887623. This tiny piece of redundancy is tremendously helpful for customer support staff and for your programs to recognize that a customer is giving the wrong number. In web forms, you can also prompt people to enter the number beginning with "fe" or "88". It's not the norm, but there's plenty of precedent for putting in a redundant prefix like this.

And for heaven's sake, keep the number to a reasonable length, and if longer than 6 digits, break it up with hyphens, and make sure that all your web forms accept the number with or without the hyphens if copied & pasted. I've seen confirmation numbers, order numbers, etc., that run to absurd 30 or 60 or more digits, enough to encode all the protons on Earth. There are always cases when you can't copy & paste (like from screenshots, paper printouts, one device to another, spoken over the phone), so you don't want crazy lengths.
I don't know anyone who reads significant numbers of books on smartphone/tablets. It's either print books, ebooks, or audiobooks. And looking at print book sales over the last decade, there hasn't been a consistent downwards trend.

Personally, I like to buy print books because I can give them away to friends or family after I read them. I also get a lot of print books from my local library, because there's nearly always less of a wait than for ebooks, due to the obnoxious DRM/copyright terms that ebooks for libraries entail.
one commonly used measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient, which isn't perfect but is great for getting a "big picture" view of things. The increased exposure of the rich to the vicissitudes of valuations doesn't really get accounted for, even in more detailed analyses. I'm guess that's because it would be horribly impractical to measure; you'd have to take a detailed look at the finances of almost everybody.
That doesn't explain that they also get a lot of discussion (relative to other posts). To me the story is a bit different. I've talked to a lot of people that take notes daily, and the only consistent theme I've found is that none of them are satisfied with their experience thus far. Until that changes, I'd expect every reasonably good notes application to front-page.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The way the GPL works is: you are given permission to redistribute someone's copyrighted work provided you comply with particular conditions (such as providing similar permission to your end users). If you don't stay within those conditions, then you're violating that person's copyright (you're redistributing their work without permission) and they can sue you. But that doesn't mean that I can distribute your work without permission, any more than you assaulting my neighbour means that I'm allowed to assault you.

Now the makers of this game and the copyright holder for the GPL work might end up reaching a settlement where the game engine is released under the GPL. (I know of one case of this happening: a Japanese visual novel producer, Leaf, released their engine as used in several games e.g. Kusari . As a result of this there's an open-source engine that you can use to play those games on linux). Equally they might end up reaching a different settlement that involves e.g. withdrawing the game from distribution (this happened with the Wii ports of some classic SCUMM games - they used ScummVM in violation of its license, but could not release their code under the GPL without violating the conditions of the Nintendo API they were using).
Correct. Maker spaces are the loss leader for the services provided. They survive on donations and class costs. Really sad to see, but not unbelievably so.
Who said anything about accepting a loss on their goods/services? Capital investments allow them to produce at lower costs, which lets them offer goods/services at lower prices and still profit.

>>If everyone has half as much money then the supply gets cut in half.

No, money is not wealth. If everyone had half as much money, each unit of that money would double in value.

>>Likewise the supply will only be doubled if everyone has twice as much money.

If we expanded by the money supply 20X, we wouldn't get 20X more production. Money is not valuable in and of itself. It's only a claim on the real goods produced, and each unit will adjust in value based on how many currency units there are relative to real goods produced.

The limiting factor in the value of money is the number of goods/services that the economy is capable of producing. And that capability can only be improved with capital investments.
Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be
I took my kid to the most recent one in the Bay Area, which was fun. And crowded. And a bit expensive. Too bad it wasn’t working out, but glad we got a chance to go once.
Borders did the same re-arrangement about a year before they went under. There used to be a half-bookshelf or so of "released this week" titles where any regular customer could walk in and immediately see and grab a new book by a favorite author, or maybe a new book by an unfamiliar author. Nope, you had to search the whole section.

I really wonder if these corporate directives are made by people who like bookstores, or read.
Against Historic Preservation (2016)
"Sign In with Apple" is top post right now so I should I have figured this would not get much traction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Looks very much like Piaggio Avanti

I'm not sure if there is a stated "breakthrough" in fuel efficiency. Slow, straight wing, glider-like airplanes with turbos and electronic engine controls were already better than some SUVs.
AV1 Update: Mythbusters Edition [video]
Slides: https://people.xiph.org/~negge/NYC2019.pdf
On top of the stores others have mentioned, Costco seems to have randomly different prices between their physical stores and their online store. (With the physical store more frequently being the cheaper price.)
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