skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the advice of never speaking to the police is meant to say that you can only get yourself into more trouble, not less. Emergency situations like this require you to make judgement calls. These situations seem like obvious cases to help out with your eyewitness testimony. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you wouldn't be breaking some lay by intentionally not helping in an emergency.
The ambiguity is intentional; the statement is intended to capture all of those cases, because the differences between them don’t matter in practice. No studies, only one good studies, one hundred bad studies: they’re all conditions where the right response is “don’t rely on this as evidence until you’ve done more studies.” And, critically, the case where there’s a bunch of evidence against efficacy cannot be practically distinguished from those cases; it could always turn out that the study methodology was wrong and your N null results will be later countermanded by 2N+1 non-null results. You can’t prove a negative; you have to treat a negative the same as an absence of evidence. (Which, in practice, means treating an absence-of-evidence as a negative.)

> doctors deploying authoritarian judgements despite not being masters of logic

That’s because doctors don’t use their own judgement. Doctors are embodiments of a system mapping a symptom-recognition model (mostly random, gets better with experience; this is the part humans are better at currently) to a fixed, explicit expert system of guidelines built by panels who study meta-analyses to reach recommendations.

In psychiatry, for example, this expert system is reified in the form of a book called the DSM. Doctors don’t need to know why the DSM recommends what it recommends to be right by making recommendations using it; just like a soldier doesn’t need to know what’s over the hill they’re lobbing grenades at in order to be aiding in winning a war. In both cases, the commander giving the orders has better “line of sight” on the problem than the person on the ground does. (And, in both cases, usually information-retaining expert consensus techniques are used to allow the commander+advisors system to actually have a greater-than-1.0xhuman level of rationality.)
> We don't have anything like Miranda in the UK, but of course the same ethical issues apply.

We definitely do, the wording is just a bit different to the US version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence#England_and_W...
I've been a backend developer for years and at times a frontend developer.

I've applied to a few full stack positions and the amount of specific knowledge in various topics they require seems much greater than either role separately.
The PLA is not China's army, it is the Chinese communist party's army.

PLA training is 90% political indoctrination, 10% combat training.

They have garrisons in Hong Kong (edited).

Unless the Chinese communist party self-destructs, there's no foreseeable end of communist rule in China.

The social credit system and online censors prevent people from criticizing and opposing the government.
Green Revolution[1] happened and food availability greatly increased. There is no need for more explanation than this.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
Brute force pattern matching would be cataloguing all possible matching pixel patterns. The whole point of the ML approach is that with a comparatively few images (yes even 20k is comparatively few) the computer will correctly match pixel-sets it has never encountered before.
Actually, leaving things out of a description of a complex system is the only reason we can ever understand anything!
> explicit contract

I think many first-time cat slaves would disagree
Macaroni?
The DSM-IV Believed Women Didn’t Have Paraphilias
Most of modern surveillance capitalism is.

When Di Cleverly and Dave Thiery set up Pluspora as a home for for G+ refugees, the costs worked out (at least for direct hosting, ignoring admin costs) to about $0.25 per user.

Not per month.

Per year.

They're hosting 10,000 users (a very considerable chunk of the active English-language G+ user core) out of pocket.

That's literally too cheap to meter. At best you might aggregate service at blocks of 100, and more likely 1,000 - 10,000 users -- large groups or communities.

One reason mass media turn to advertising-based business models, and all the dysfunction and social malfunction that generates, is because adverts are a tractable scaling and grouping mechanism. They're a hack (though not the only one) to the too-cheap-to-meter problem.
Private prisons only amount to 8.4% of the prison system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
The “how” of the title is how they got so many users, not how it died from so many users. For that here’s the post mortem

https://giki.wiki/@nubela/Kloudsec/Post-Mortem
People Experiencing Hardship Using Tech Don't Need Your Judgmental Bullshit
> English speakers have become the gatekeepers of science. By keeping those gates closed, we’re missing out on a lot of perspectives and a lot of good research.

I'm always baffled with how disjointed and chaotic the global science community seems. Why there isn't something like Facebook for science? Are there grants for solving meta problems like this?

One interesting fact about using a foreign language: There is a research saying that lying in a foreign language is easier. English is not my mother tongue so don't take this for granted :D
Free app working to offer public insights on blockchain-based assets
Apple is using just a bog standard <video>-tag, so this should be a general plea to browser vendors (including Apple/Safari) to add that functionality.
Ed Yourdon also said a variant of the latter.
Privacy benefits aside-Sign in with Apple will make fighting disinfo much harder
Compare to this markov model from the 80s: http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/poetry/rkcp_poetry_samples.p...
As I have aged, I have learned that duplication of code can become a feature in terms of building redundancy inside of teams. This is one of the reason that "enterprise code" really sucks, but the people turn-over and need to transfer knowledge over generations is more important than minimalism and the power of individuals (sadly).
Giving a statement is not the same thing as being interviewed as a suspect. You don't have a right to a solicitor before giving a witness statement, but it's completely up to you whether you want to give a statement.

You have a right to free and independent legal advice if you are interviewed under caution as a suspect (whether or not you have been arrested).
Do you know an American or Canadian who was hired this way? Or is this speculation?
The Croissant, Breakfast of Rebels
Posting this on Hacker News seems kind of ironic to me. I can count on one hand the number of startups that even put a serious effort to live up to this, and I wonder if any exist that succeed.

If you required "open" and "honest" as defined by the manifesto, almost the entire marketing industry and the industries it supports would have to shut down. Even supposedly-altruistic nonprofits are tricking people into subscribing to their mailing lists and then stockpiling the emails in opaque databases these days.
There are security implication sometimes.

https://twitter.com/dakami/status/668888298677407744?lang=en
Such nostalgia!

My enchantment with BASIC began when I was 10, and on the bus to summer camp every morning I'd read this dog-eared book:

https://imgur.com/a/kmBfx7Y

I was such a nerd. The counselors didn't know what to make of me. Dad complained I should spend more time outside.

Then I grew up and published my first commercial software title, turning that geeky addiction into a career. It was an Outlook addin, created in VB6 around the time a prominent Microsoft MVP called Outlook the "buggiest program to ever come out of Redmond" (source: https://web.archive.org/web/20091231043608/http://www.slipst...). So in the next rewrite, I created a framework to bring Try/Catch semantics to the language along with stack-tracing error logging - after testing and discarding several equally buggy third party tools purporting to do the same.

I gained some hard-learned lessons about instrumentation, coding for readability and debugability, and the importance of good tooling. They've stuck with me to this day, and although most of my work now is in C#, the principles are the same.

Thanks mom and dad for buying me that beat up old TRS-80! And thanks Mr. Kemeny and Kurtz for bestowing this beautifully approachable language onto the world, even if your original vision was shamefully bastardized by the time I stumbled upon it.

ps. That book in all its glory: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/H...
Not sure what your point is, CCPs legitimacy just crashed when Carrie Lam, a puppet of CCP, just bowed to the pressure of 2M protestors in Hong Kong.
Tasting Mercury Metal
To test how much this corresponds to reality, has someone cloned an organism yet with entirely synthetic DNA material?
Terra Incognito|One Minute Reads|Fantastic Pulp Magazine
Howard Hughes was quite similar to Elon Musk but he wasn't a automotive executive. He was an aviation-space guy as Elon is.
If I listen to a song and transcribe the lyrics myself, do I still require a license to put them up online and profit from them via ads on my site?
Show HN: SnapNews – self destructing HN stories (never read same story twice)
My biggest use case for lenses that I miss in other languages is the ability to interact with all elements of a collection, or elements in deeply nested collections.

For example, if I had a list of records with a field named 'categories' holding a list of objects with a field named 'tags', and I wanted to get all of these names in one list, without nested loops, lens makes it easy 'record ^.. categories . each . tags . each' or I could update them all, etc. It's just so easy to do this kind of data munging with lens that writing fors, whiles, etc in other languages is painful.
Learn Multiple Programming Languages
The DNN based techniques are new but the concept of models that can fill in the blanks is old. It used to be called content addressable memory or autoassociative memory.
Choosing the Wrong Lane in the Race to 5G
So ‘fuck up’ is fine, and 'beaten housewife’ is a no-no in tech. Is that also detrimental to the general (and all specific other) points?!?
Ah, that's really interesting, many thanks. I'd be building from source anyway, so I'll have to try clang HEAD with Linus' tree and see how it goes.
I believe Baloo (a KDE project) does exactly that (indexing local content). There are different tools you can then use to search for indexed data: I assume KRunner will be the closest to Spotlight, but you can search for files right from Dolphin, if you use it.

To be honest, I've found Baloo to be a resource hog in the past, so I've now the habit of disabling it right after installing a distro which comes with it (eg. Kubuntu) or not installing at all otherwise (eg. on Debian or Arch). I should probably give it a second chance, though: on paper, that's the right approach to search.
Concerned Users Worry as Twitter Suspenders Several “OSINT” Accounts
Interesting tidbit about ray sorting: Imagination Technologies had a GPU design in 2014 that had support for ray tracing, including a Coherency Engine:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7870/imagination-announces-po...

But there wasn't enough interest in GPU path tracing yet.
I did not know that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/business/media/rap-genius...

I wonder how much they have to pay?
Quebec's National Assembly continues, focus shifts to religious symbols bill
> whole segments of the software industry would have to close their doors.

I read this more as an incentive to improve, not as a requirement to operate.
Archeological remains of English and Welsh longbowmen are frequently identifiable from the changes to their skeletons, from the hours of practice they put in to be able to draw a 180lb bow

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-17309665
There's bookmarklets for this

https://github.com/sjurgis/Bookmarklets/blob/master/youtube-...
This was my weekend project. The concept is simple:

All news stories have a ticker. After it expires the news story is gone forever.

There are also buttons under to clear the whole page, first item or pause.

Once the story goes away, it's gone forever. You will never see it again!

Made with Vuejs and hosted on Aws lambda (serverless)

There aren't many options because I just uploaded the first version and it's pretty rough.

Feedback and comments welcome :)
Right, CFFI is another can of worms. It is sometimes questionable whether the time saved by reusing C code isn't lost by debugging and integration issues. For example I ended up avoiding cl-async (a wrapper over a C library) due to these.

In my mind reimplementing in CL is better bet than pulling Docker.
Spelling corrector failure?
When Metal was initially developed and even when it was released, Vulkan wasn't even a proposed project yet. The only comparable thing was Mantle from AMD (which later evolved into Vulkan). At the time NVidia were still saying use OpenGL with AZDO techniques and on mobile, you were stuck with OpenGL ES, with a multitude of issues.

Optimization of existing code happens at a lower level but if you can gear an API for optimal use of your hardware and existing APIs, you make it easier for developers to write code that will have a better shot at being optimized. Not all code optimizes the same way.

Also what you view as taxing developers, can also be flipped around as being able to make an API that is a lot easier for the developers on their platform.

And indeed, metal is probably the easiest of the modern graphics APIs to get started with, with a very light learning curve even compared to OpenGL. All while not sacrificing performance and expressiveness for more involved development. Vulkan meanwhile remains very inaccessible to many developers even with graphics backgrounds.

Let's not also forget that apple isn't an outlier for lockin, and actually are quite open. OpenCL, Clang, webgpu, swift etc are all very open and cross platform. Meanwhile even things like directx are locked to windows.

The real goal isn't lockin. It's providing the best API to developers to let them get in quickly while also optimizing for their hardware. Lockin is an unfortunate side effect but they're also completely succesful in meeting their actual goals.
> The first purpose of school and high school is to learn to follow authority.

I think that depends which person at the school you ask. I am married to a low-income neighborhood high school English teacher and we talk curriculum often. Seems to me that it's about striking a balance: One side is what you said, the other side is teaching students to unite against that authority in productive ways.

Too far in one direction, and you wind up with a society where none of the competent people you know have enough faith in the system to run for office. Too far in the other direction and the dominant class sees the everyone else as a threat and puts walls up.

It's a difficult balance to strike, but I know a lot of teachers that work very hard at finding it.
It’s a litte like saying: ‘If you are bullied and are too afraid to report the bully to the police, you deserve to be bullied’… The world kinda evolved, you know? It’s not like in the far west with the cowboys and stuff.
Much of that land (the western-middle) is not very habitable. There's a reason that almost no one lives there now..
Yes, but only just. Delphi was a saner language and IIRC faster, too. Both of them blew the modern web front end tools into the weeds. Twenty five years ago.
Or, if your usage is sufficiently infrequent to not need caching and if you'd rather not depend on one more tool, simply configure ripgrep to use a `--pre` flag (which is what rga is doing :).

See config and gist at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1252
My opportunity cost is a mid six figure salary vs the hustle of trying to sell something that can be copied very easily by others. Not worth my time or effort any more.
> Urban areas only make up 3% of our entire landmass.

And 80% of our population. Yet our political system was conceived in an era when those numbers were roughly comparable. It amazes me that more people do not see this as a problem.
> It's true it's an ongoing sore that Apple can continually fuck up and expect people to pretend they haven't.

A generation of flagship Samsung phones started on fire, but that’s not really relevant when considering current products. And why should it be? Poor products in the past don’t make current products any worse, and good products in the past don’t make current products any better.
I agree that some “non violent offenders” should go to jail if they break the law. I don’t agree on a lot of the laws that are on the books that stop consenting adults from making their own decisions. Some things that are currently illegal that shouldn’t be:

- selling drugs to adults.

- adults buying drugs

- prostitution (either side)
I’m coming from the following point of view: it’s only clear in hindsight, but if someone had asked me “what’s the greatest experience one could build on the web?”, the answer would be “an interactive real time presentation of the Apollo 11 mission”.
>Further cracking down on homeless people will just transfer them from the streets to jails, where they will cost the taxpayers exorbitant amounts of money (and if they're in a private prison, create profit for private interests), while failing to get people back on their feet when they are eventually let go.

It doesn't seem the article is advocating for a crackdown. The article seems to advocate for cities "to provide access to on-demand detox, rehabilitation, and recovery programs that might help people overcome their addictions."
Because static analyzers today are imprecise. We're considering where this makes sense to turn on in Android, and even within the Linux kernel.
This seems good, I just was hoping "sustainable" also means less churn, because if anything contributes to the waste that makes modern IT less sustainable, it's the amount of unnecessarily changing things that work.
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> The real goal isn't lockin.

That's an excuse, since the result is lock-in. I.e. if Apple so much wanted Metal - let them have it. But how does that prevent them from supporting Vulkan, for those who don't want to waste resources on duplicating work and want to reuse their existing Vulkan codebase on Apple systems? But no, Apple forces you to use Metal. So the claim that it's for developers' benefit won't fly. It's for Apple's benefit very clearly.

WebGPU is also a counter example, since Apple there try to prevent adoption of common formats like SPIR-V.

When it comes to sabotaging interoperability, Apple are always among the first.
This is also true wrt to fasting. I consumed less than 400 calories a day and after 3 weeks my weight plateaued.
Would you need to pass that knowledge on for two generations instead of one?
You seem to have bought in heavily to marketing.

Pathtracing software has been available for production use on GPUs for years before RTX was available.

Even in games, raytracing has been in use for a long time in various forms.

Yes RTX enables extra optimizations and provides nice APIs for it to boot, but it doesn't enable the technology as a whole. It's very much existed in realtime for a long time and on GPUs for a long time as well.

The real coup if anything is denoising. Advances in denoising are actually what really push realtime pathtracing forward as you no longer need to fire as many rays to converge on a useable image.
Tldr: over dosed on free server from IBM

You should have calculated the overhead per user and then created a pricing strategy based on that
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SVP [0], a Windows / Linux program, can handle animation (as well as film) quite well, interpolating at 60fps or greater. Try it out for yourself and see. It doesn't use GANs however, but a sufficiently complex algorithm that does interpolation.

[0] https://www.svp-team.com
To give due credits, the Hong Kong people put great effort to ensure that the protests--both the Umbrella protest in 2014 and the anti-extradition protest in 2019--are peaceful, largely because they don't want to turn Victorial Park into another Tiananmen Square--there are 6000 PLA troops stationed in Hong Kong, and they will come out once the Hong Kong police loses control of the situation.

Hong Kong people learned from mainland China first. I do hope that one day mainland China could learn back, when the time calls for it.

Okay, as for the bit on cleaning trashes [1], we don't learn it from China, we learn it from Japan (for example [2]). Well, we all have something to learn from each other.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/c18ybh/protester_...

[2]: https://nextshark.com/japanese-world-cup-fans-clean-stadium-...
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If your comparison function returns a float instead of a binary value, then you don't need to match against every possible image. Instead you just return how much each image is "similar" to the given image. A simple approach is to use cross correlation for the similarity.
>rga simply runs ripgrep (rg) with some options set, especially --pre=rga-preproc and --pre-glob.

If all it does is running ripgrep with certain options, creating a corresponding alias might be a simpler solution than adding another binary to the system.
HAProxy 2.0
Are you experienced in Common Lisp? Racket is multiparadigm too.

As such, many good multiparadigm books will be of great help. E.g. SICP, but also the much less known yet equally fantastic CTM. None are written in Racket, although SICP with Scheme is close, but many concepts can be ported.

There's also excellent Lisp literature like Lisp in Small Pieces or PAIP, that are always worth to consider.

Racket also implements most of http://www.eopl3.com/, which is a great textbook.
Learn by Programming or Learn Programming to Program?
When I was younger I learned to program because I wanted to write a program. I never wanted to "Learn C" I just kept on reading chapters of K&R so that I could write my program (Just a small game). Now, decades later, I just finished reading "The Rust Programming Language" with no real desire to write a program -- I just wanted to read the book. Great language but I have this sort of empty feeling -- kind of like "What now". I wonder how many people suffer from this. I'll likely will never get paid to write Rust, and given I find programming to be the the least lucrative way to put my tech skills to use, I guess I'll likely never get to use Rust. How many people learn languages that they will never get to use?
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Modern C++ is a big jump in the right direction, but you still have to compile and link it.
"I’ve even met my direct competitor projects "

How exactly can anyone meet _projects_???