skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my view, Facebook clearly wants this to be a temporary evil, so they can use the data from human moderators as a training set for automated ML-based moderation. But I wonder how long people will have to endure this for those models to reach an acceptable efficacy.

Alternatively I wonder if it's worth it to put any number of human beings through this kind of suffering for something as worthless as social networking.
2-hour computer outage at U.S. customs causes delays nationwide
Hopefully a small group of licensed psychologists and therapists can set up a small office across from the FB office in Austin and start serving the moderators privately.
And to think I was expecting a paean to ed...
Hacker with bullhorn: "Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!"

Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don’t know how to maintain a tank!"

Bullhorn: "You don’t know how to maintain a station wagon either!"

Buyer: "But this dealership has mechanics on staff. If something goes wrong with my station wagon, I can take a day off work, bring it here, and pay them to work on it while I sit in the waiting room for hours, listening to elevator music."

Bullhorn: "But if you accept one of our free tanks we will send volunteers to your house to fix it for free while you sleep!"

Buyer: "Stay away from my house, you freak!"

Speculative economists take note: abundance is hard.
> This is why in-band signaling is very, very bad.

The system was designed for resilience in the face of disasters up to and including nuclear attack. In this case low complexity in a single channel is a feature, not a bug.
How does it balance tasks across CPU cores?

The thing I like in Go is that I don’t have to worry about that, it’s all automatic.
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Yet from what I've seen rent prices continue to hold or rise. If I had to guess, more and more people may be opting away from home ownership so the charts on demand for purchasing homes may be trending downward as demand for renting trends upward. Would've been interesting of the article juxtaposed the two but it could help explain why prices for one has gone down as the other goes up.
Teen video app TikTok is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict
I've certainly read somewhere that running `fixamo` would modify my user.js. I was fully aware of this fact prior to running the command.
If I was a large VFX studio in 2019, I would not spend a cent on proprietary stuff anymore.

With an OpenSource base like Blender, anything you need to add to your pipeline can be grafted on top of blender by a small team of coders, and you are guaranteed that it'll keep on working for the next 10 years.
For those interested, there is also Suizen [1] meditation which involves playing shakuhachi bamboo flute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suizen
But you are forgetting the huge amount of subsidized R&D (via universities) and subsidized investment costs that has already been spent. Without that, it is very hard to believe that the wind power industry would have bootstrapped itself.

The same can of course be said for the nuclear industry. Without massive R&D spending and cheap capital costs, nuclear energy would never have been viable. Today, wind and solar is beating both nuclear and coal, which is great. But perhaps The Market shouldn't get all the credit.
I should probably also point you to this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20719678 - some interaction before pages load would be possible if that keyboard-api was brought up-to-date and merged into Firefox.
AFAIK, firearms are not allowed in Banff National Park.
I must be dumb, because every time I dive into async/await, I feel like I reach an epiphany about how it works, and how to use it. Then a week later I read about it again and totally lost all understanding.

What do I gain if I have code like this [0], which has a bunch of `.await?` in sequence?

I know .await != join_thread(), but doesn't execution of the current scope of code halt while it waits for the future we are `.await`-ing to complete?

I know this allows the executor to go poll other futures. But if we haven't explicitly spawned more futures concurrently, via something like task::spawn() or thread::spawn(), then there's nothing else the cpu can possible do in our process?

[0] https://github.com/async-rs/async-std/blob/master/examples/t...
Adding even just a data time stamp would easily let you filter accidental bad data.
>If you have kids with you the pool of animals that may consider you a food source is much lower

Can you please explain this?
You say you're a Brit but I'm pretty sure you're a CCP mouthpiece
okay, Omaha, define "paid well" and "paid well without golden handcuffs".

and for the coastal record, "cost of living" means nothing to me when federal thresholds like achieving accredited investor status don't factor that in at all. I'll figure out how to stash away enough dollars getting paid a lot of dollars in a high cost of living area.
But it's better than nothing when you have a wide network already in place and are too cheap to extend it.

For one-way wide area communications it might not be a bad tradeoff. AT&T had an issue with blueboxing because people were making free calls on it.
>they don't have the capital for nuclear

I find that kind of hard to believe.
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We dig deep for links to post on the website, we also aim to acquire a lot of user from all over who crawl for info to post. Also Ants it sounds cool!
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> if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.

Except in the short term, doesn't increased demand for chips generally decrease unit prices, rather than increases them? Do you really think there was such a large shock, and prices rose so fast, that this permanently hobbled VR uptake even years later when chips are cheaper than they would be in the absence of crypto and DL?
https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/422/displaying-tabs-a...
You can't really compare bone and titanium in terms of strength. Bone is strong in compression but weak in tension and extremely weak in shear. Titanium is slightly weaker in compression but dramatically stronger in tension and shear.

Bone works great until it fails catastrophically (ie it fractures, breaks, and shatters) while titanium will begin bending long before it breaks. The latter is generally preferred in engineering structures, but since a human can heal its bones, the sudden failure is an acceptable compromise for consistent performance even at high loads.

Finally, bone weakens as we age, as does the body's ability to heal itself. Eventually wear and tear will make joints highly uncomfortable and the potential damage from otherwise minor injuries significantly greater. Titanium holds up well in the body over human timespans, and our ability to replace titanium components far exceeds our ability to artificially regenerate bone.

There are good reasons why evolution favored a composite like bone for our structural elements, but if you could magically replace your skeleton with one made of titanium once you were past your prime, it would be an unambiguous upgrade.
That's the problem with weight vests. Even obesity, in general, is a good example of how increased weight causes joint pains.
Pretty sure Rails is just adapting so that the V in the MVC is the SPA.
The transhumanists who want to live forever
- Stop hiring huge sloths of contract workers, for less pay, less perks and actually hire full time employees. When the company does not respect the worker, the worker does not respect the company. There are 0-fucks given when you're hired as a "resource" vs an actual human, aka full time employee.

- Stop caring when I WFH. I get more done than @ the office with your stupid open floor plan you thought would be better. Too much noise, too many distractions.
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Relatedly, here's the case of the two "Tsavo Man-Eater" lions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters

It's estimated the pair killed 28-31 humans during a 9-month span in 1898. Several theories suggest that the lions became accustomed to humans by first eating the remains of the deceased before moving on to full out attacks on the living.

Amazingly, recent research compared the Δ13C and Nitrogen-15 isotopic signature of the lions with other references and mostly confirmed the above estimate for the number of humans consumed.
I think if you're striving for that, then a bit of complexity is warranted. Not everything has to be simple, and async is hard to do correctly without the correct abstractions. Honestly, though I was hoping Rust would go with the Actix way of doing things, but that's fine. You don't have to use Rust's async.
IIRC, Soma was voluntary, a recreational drug akin to marijuana. So I'd err significantly on that side.
I sincerely hope that none of my equipment would filter an emergency message with a "bad" timestamp.
That would be how I would do it, because generally the coding I do is simple enough that I can trust Visual Studio Code to "Beautify" my finished work and insert all the tabs it needs to align things.
That isn't a counter-example unless you're taking his post literally. In which case I claim that Python is a system programming language because one time somebody somewhere wrote a driver in it.
Since when should our diet be based on environmental concerns and not nutritional value? Feeding people an incomplete diet sounds like a lousy way to prevent climate catastrophe.
Three reasons:

1. Humans are dangerous prey (eventually). The attack means the wolf was desperate enough to risk its life on a big gamble in order to eat. It was probably hoping to grab one of the kids and get away with him before one of the parents killed it. Even though the attack was unsuccessful, a desperate animal will do otherwise stupid things to survive. Even if it didn't attack another human, it would certainly go deep into human territory and try for livestock.

2. A humane cull of an unfit, packless individual is better than leaving it to die from a starvation spiral.

3. A necropsy would provide useful data on the health of the local pack.
Wisconsin police say they found a fugitive hiding in a solar-powered bunker
¶4 from the article:
To protect the purpose of the warning system, the agency has a rule against use of EAS tones or their simulations -- except in actual emergencies, authorized tests or qualified public service announcements.

¶1 from the linked order:
To preserve and protect the unique purpose of the EAS Tones, the Commission enforces laws prohibiting the use of the tones, or simulations of them, except in actual emergencies, authorized tests of the EAS, or qualified PSAs.

Answer to your question, no, the FCC is not okay with simulations of the EAS tone.
I've been enjoying reading KnowhereNews.com which attempts to provide bias-free news.
I would be fine with using spaces if it weren't for all the spaces-users. More specifically, how so many projects seem to go for the shortest common denominator, often just two spaces. I mostly write C++, and agree strongly with the rationale given in the Linux coding style for using 8-char tabs - it promotes better design practices:

> Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

> In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added benefit of warning you when you're nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning.
Thanks for the info. Definitely something we have not run into or considered yet. I guess we just naively assumed that all police precincts were as scrupulous as those we talked to :(.

There is some stuff we can do, however. For instance, we can directly build the QC schedule into the device so it does not work unless you get it calibrated. We can also have QC cartridges that have a barcode that the device reads to make sure you actually ran a calibration check properly and the device passed.

We were so focused on internal methods for making the device accurate, but maybe we should put some thought into how we can make sure the police use it properly.
This is the paper with the title:
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/36/2/220/5229930

Almost every article I've seen that uses that naming trope fundamentally misunderstands Wigner's point in the original (https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...). What Wigner was hinting at (he never really comes out and says it) is that he thinks math and science are two totally different domains and it's surprising to think that mathematical models of physical systems would be able to make generalized out-of-scope predictions. Ultimately, the best thing any theory can do is predict something we didn't expect from the previous models, and then have an experimentalist go and show the new theory's prediction is more consistent with natural observations. Both relativity and QM have done that repeatedly, although Wigner was surprised at that, as he believed that math was an independent domain untethered to physics (many today assume that the universe is effectively a physical embedding of a mathematical structure, and our mathematical theories are simiplified approximations of that structure, so it not's super surprising that a good math model would make good physical predictions), and I think this article was him basically hinting at that new idea without coming out and saying it.

As for why CNNs are useful here... in the generalized genotype-to-phenotype problem, where you are trying to take a list of a person's mutations and predict their physical attributes, there are some phenotypes/traits which are absolutely and totally explained by a single mutation in one gene. In those cases you could train classifiers using simple binary features ("has_mutation_TtoAatPosition37OfChromosome1") and make pretty good predictions.

But most traits are only predictable by making complex non-linear models that take more locations, and the interactions between locations. In some cases, it's 1-2 mutations in a single gene near each other, in other cases, it's 100 different mutations spread throughout the genome, and in other cases, many thousands (the variance of height in humans is a good example where a large number of effects combine non-linearly). CNNs are great for dealing with non-linear data with non-local interactions.

Sequence models also work well (always fine this funny because you're doing ML sequence models on DNA sequences) because so much of the signal can be found in the neighboring bases. For example, in transcription factors, where a protein recognizes a short chunk of DNA, a short window (10-20 base pairs) is recognized and it has significant internal predictability.
It has high standards but the track record shows that standards isn't all it takes. We can always blame some subcomponent under someone else's control but the end result matters more.

If you want to systemd to adhere to really high standards then you're a hypocrite if you don't apply the same standards to every subcomponent of a non-systemd system, be it upstart, logrotated, cron, chrony or whatever else.

But it seems to me that you actually don't apply the same standards to the alternatives, they've all been hit with some vunerabilities, they all have bugs, they all have at least some terrible code, some lack maintenance or are just outdated. I wouldn't start throwing rocks from a glass house.

Oh and let's not forget that based on a pure empirical observation of the Linux ecosystem we can see that it is a better choice. And no, noone has been forced to use it(, neither was anyone forced to use Pulseaudio).
The real Satoshi, if alive, has a trivial method to demonstrate his authenticity.

We should therefore continue to ignore everyone claiming to be Satoshi until this proof is presented.
But if the whole point is road safety and fewer accidents then those sober drivers should fail.
> https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populate...

That page is terrible - email subscription modal, asking for notification permissions, attempts to load a Flash plugin, and stuffed to the gills with display and banner ads.
Yeah the cows have been getting a bad rap...
> It exports stdlib types (like io::Error)

Excellent, good to know!
People who are paid per character would receive slightly more and people who are paid per hour would take a little longer to type the spaces therefore would likely be remunerated slightly better than those that type tabs. There, I've accounted for 0.001% of the difference in earnings.
I stand by SPIDR.

Found it via 4chan. Comments section get get a bit /pol/ but I think it adds a refreshing reminder of what the internet used to be like before we started posting our names and mugshots. http://spidr.today/
> For instance, you'll likely not ever see - barring some extremely major advance in battery technology - something like a Bobcat Skid-steer loader using an all-electric drive system.

These do exist, though, albeit in smaller form factors: http://www.sherpaminiloaders.com/eng/models/sherpa-100-eco/

Industrial applications like this tend to be more amenable to electric-only vehicles (even if those vehicles ultimately get their power from ICE generators on the job site) thanks to there being far less of a need to drive long distances on a single charge (and thus never having to be very far from a charger). Electric forklifts are pretty common, on that note.

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But yes, I fully expect ICE vehicles will continue to exist for various specialized applications (and also because there are a lot of them driving around right now). They just don't need to be anywhere near the majority of vehicles in operation.
Yeah I'm sure the therapy will be covered by the amazing mental health benefits these moderators receive through the no-cost health insurance provided by Accenture. If not, they'll have no trouble at all paying out of pocket with that cushy $14.50/hr they're making!
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I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”
Shopify has 800,000 customers, 4,000+ employees, and handles over $40,000,000,000 per year. And you're building something from scratch, starting today, that is going to be bigger than Shopify in a fast enough timeframe that your Rails server today is the biggest concern?
If you had a suit that could help increase intensity, you'd have way more possibilities. For example, let's say you wanted to train for a 5k. Generally, you mix interval days with just running 5k's. Those 5k days, you're going to be running as fast as you can at that distance already. If you had something to make it harder but still the same distance, you essentially feel lighter on race. It's a completely different feeling than just trying to run faster. People use weight vests or ankle weights for these things but they cause long term damage.

Generally, the best thing to do now to accomplish the same feeling is running on sand or inclines.
If you have an Interactive Brokers account (real money or test) you can use Traders Workstation, and IB also has an API that lets you pull data. There is an active mailing list https://groups.io/g/twsapi .
This kind of analysis is the more intellectual equivalent of finding hidden messages in the Bible.
Same for me. My Focus Planet is a 2015 model and I ride nearly every day; the blue coloring on the tooth side (presumably a wear indicator?) is barely worn through at any point.

Mine also has the Alfine 8 speed hub, which is kind of suck, but I make it work. I recently had it re-lubed (dunked) at my LBS, which seemed to help. I just wish there were some nice IGH in between the Alfine 8/11 and a Rohloff. I'd gladly pay for something better than the Shimano.

For commuters, I cannot fathom why people would deal with a chain when belts are a thing. Plus, good chains aren't cheap (I like Wippermann) and when you rack up miles you need to replace them enough that your wallet notices.

Tires: +1 for Schwalbe Marathons. Four years and no flats. NB: if you are worried about weight, upgrade to the Marathon Supremes with the aramid (foldable) bead. ~$75USD/each but totally worth it.

Oh yeah: a dynamo hub is a life-changer. My Focus came with a SP PD8 and lights, stock. Never having to strap on a light, or remember to charge it is a revelation.

Ride safe!
I think the previous post wasn't literally saying they would be okay with someone purchasing a solution. Just that it's okay if they had help with the problem, even it's quite a bit, as long as they actually understand the code.

I can't imagine a scenario where a person can't solve the problem, so hires someone to do it, then explains it as well as the person that actually wrote the code. If you can explain it that well, with reasoning for tradeoffs and design decisions, you might as well have written the code yourself and saved some money.
>>> more and more people may be opting away from home ownership

I don't think people are opting away from home ownership but rather forced away from home ownership due to high down payment requirement and lack of enough jobs that allow someone to save enough.

Who has $100,000 in cash to put down 10% downpayment?

It is a vicious cycle.

Less people are able to afford downpayment. So more people are crowding into rental market. But affordable rental supply is decreasing as more rental units are converted into condo/house AND more people are forced into rentals.

It is really a vicious, destructive downward spiral.
A handful of truly great kayfabe-at-all-costs stories: https://www.cracked.com/article_20029_5-insane-true-tales-wr...

There's another one, that I can't seem to find where a promoter bought a boat and decided to use it as a prop in "winner gets a boat" match. The wrestler convinced the promoter to actually sign over the title in the name of kayfabe and the wrestler went home with his new boat.
> When Gab arrived in July however, it upset the Mastodon universe, and pretty quickly the hate-filled Gab network was blocked by the other networks with one Mastodon fan calling for a permanent ban of the far-right network.

I don't know what a "permanent ban" would be, but I know no respectable instance on the Fediverse that federates with Gab. Most clients for it don't allow you to log on to Gab using them.
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When? Certainly not during the day: "Accenture told contractors they could go to the attached parking garage to 'stretch their legs' but to go no further".

Also, counseling isn't cheap. These people are already complaining about working at Uber to make ends meet, and now they should be paying out of pocket for the trauma their job inflicts upon them?
Why? I worked in some FTSE100 and Fortune 50 in UK and you just get salary.
But you can usually buy stocks at a discount.
If all the pics from 1994 is still available, it would be nice to watch a timelapse since 94.
Also, the sadness when Trump was elected despite relatively even vote totals tells you that Twitter skews to the left.
Because people are tired of hearing "Rails is so slow". It's been a dead horse for 10 years now, in 2019 it just feels like you're trolling.
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