skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite it being the title for the article, I'd argue that the statement "Texas might have accidentally decriminalized marijuana" is entirely false.

All that's happened is that the threshold for successful prosecution has changed slightly - not even necessarily "been lowered", but "changed" - and the state's forensic labs aren't yet set up to deal with the new requirements.

People arrested now who fall under this gray area will likely be released without charges, but there is nothing at all stopping them from arresting them again and charging them next week/month/year when the labs catch up.
Creating annotations is the main issue. It is what will separate those who commercialize NLP vs those who talk about it.

As a practioner I don't think BERT and friends are that great. They get you from 88% accuracy in some of those tasks to 93% accuracy. They will get better over time but they are approaching an asymptote -- that article points out several major limitations of the approach.

Thus "simple classifier" vs "heckton of features" can be effective for that work, particularly because you don't have to train and retrain complex models and use the effort to build up training sets and do feature engineering.
Do you have any good sources on the existance of the latter group? Also that could be seen as a subset of the former, I'd say people wanting fewer children have a combination of reasons for that, possibly including financial.
Whistle-blower reveals N Dakota leak of 11M gallons of gas condensate in 2015
So, I said 'what's wrong with how he does what he does', you say 'because it's an infomercial', I dispute and then raise 'what difference does that make' and your answer is 'I don't like infomercials'.

So, because you don't like infomercials, Joe Rogan shouldn't do them?

> I feel interviewers who push their guests to confront and address the rougher edges and ramifications of their beliefs

I feel I'm smart enough to figure out for myself if someone's claims or beliefs have rougher edges and ramifications. I don't need someone to ask these questions, if they go unaddressed, I make a determination as to why.

For instance "Drink this koolaide and you'll go to heaven." I don't need someone to question that, I'll be sure to question it on my own. Did the person espousing such a belief do enough to substantiate their opinion during the interview or not?
Yes it is.

Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism

prejudice or discrimination based on sex

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sexism

prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/sexism

prejudice or discrimination based on sex or gender, especially against women and girls.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/sexism

actions based on a belief that particular jobs and activities are suitable only for women and others are suitable only for men

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/sexis...

What definition of sexism are you using where discriminating against what sex you want to date isnt sexism?
People do far more strange (and difficult) things ritually...
These days I tend to use the built in element inspector instead to view live state, unless I specifically want to see the original state - from before JS got involved :)
Real-time response and a/an RTOS are not the same thing. An RTOS only allows processes with a known (or computable) runtime to run so that it may make guarantees about timing of execution. In some RTOSes scheduling may be entirely static and determined at compile time. This type of OS is used in critical systems (aircraft, hospital equipment, nuclear bombs). It's not really the type of system you'd want for a general purpose operating system.
I think the argument is that if an OS has a tiny market share then it tends to be more open to 3rd party developers as a way to increase market share.

MacOS used to be a more developer friendly.
> What happened when the npm owner decided to remove some packages?

They can’t, at least not older packages, I believe they need to contact NPM if they wish to unpublish packages.
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/unpublish
I completely understand this perspective. It is, however, completely possible to use .Net without Visual Studio once you understand a bit about and solutions.

Especially .Net Core's dotnet command is a wonderful tool that allows you to do basically everything with it - it can run, compile, even run tests - completely on the command line.

.Net documentation is however VERY crusty in my experience - all the fragmentation and outdatedness can very well lead to you accidentally reading and trying documentation that is 3 major changes behind, for a library version that has long been replaced. Nowhere will you find any warnings. That is hugely frustrating.

Visual Studio itself also makes a very broken impression to me, although admittedly it appears to improve.

Not sure whether that's going to be enough to keep Windows or .Net alive in the long term, since even Microsoft is moving to embedded Web apps now, abandoning their own 3 different UI solutions they have been pushing in the last 20 years (completely ignoring the 3rd party efforts like platform.uno, which they could probably acquire quite easily - seriously: Xamarin, but not this?!).
Subjectively, I went with plasma over other choices for my thesis (which I successfully defended yesterday!). I have used jet for many years for electrical test and measurement reports. For scientific writing, I felt there was a lot of value in colormaps that don't rely on chroma. I wish there was a jet-like colormap that used the entire color spectrum, but also was constantly increasing in brightness.
Yet another issue: Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as options.

No matter what your political views are about the situation, the fact is that they have separate visa rules from mainland China and should definitely be listed.
Are you possibly angry? Honestly, I feel very relaxed right now and I wish I could post a photo here to reassure you that I'm anything but angry :)

Anyways, my initial point was that .NET folks are less likely to look outside the MS bubble when making technology choices.

The other commentator said that he/she worked at large enterprises which had .NET teams and other development teams employed. That is great, but I don't see how that is relevant to my initial comment, because the question still stands if those .NET teams within those large organisations worked mostly within the MS stack or not.

My second comment was aimed at suggesting that I think it must have been the latter, given that before .NET Core many tech choices were forced upon those developers due to .NET being very tightly coupled to MS technologies.

So I take your point that large organisations might have many different dev teams, but that doesn't really say much about my point, which I still think can be true at the same time.
Trella is going to get sued by Trello.
Snowalert running on Snowflake is a reasonable aggregator/alerting solution for anyone looking to do this.
https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/Snowflake-Using-Sn...
The Chase Freedom Unlimited is 3% back on all purchases (up to $20k/yr), and if you're willing to play the categories game, the Chase Freedom is 5% back.
I've often thought the exact same thing!

There's an amusing video on youtube where Steve Jobs is demoing remote Objects on NextStep and (I think) Openstep on Windows, and having a laugh at MS since Next managed to get remote Objects working before MS got their Remote OLE (aka DCOM) working. Steve calls it Doh'LE.

The only different thing that COM had was support for scripting the objects via IDispatch, but that was such a pain (VARIANTS !) that only those really needing it bothered.

MS were also very proud of their MTS where an on the fly proxy object was created, but even that was inspired by Remote objects.

However they really jumped the shark when they made it possible to create COM objects from Visual Basic - the endless grief caused whenever a VB developer decided to change any parameters on the interface and caused all GUIDs to be regenerated and a big fat binary with all revisions of the code. They then created a tool to strip that all down to just the last version, thereby totally removing any backward compatibility - which then caused other random components to fail.
> That’s correct but I don’t see what this has to do with my comment. It’s still a fact that all modern life, at some point, came through the same individual organism which, furthermore, already possessed the fundamental machinery of DNA replication, RNA transcription and protein synthesis (amongst other things)

This is a contentious statement that I don't think is established - a fact that the grandparent comment is trying to raise.
The dichotomy is wrong. If you allow people to have antibiotics at home, enough of them are gonna chew them like vitamins to spread antibiotics resistance even faster. Then when you have your emergency, sure you can eat your pills, but it's not gonna do shit.

The only remotely viable solution is improving access to ERs.
Sorry, this is for debugging. How much state are you planning to transfer in a debugging session?
I am from Europe and I can confirm that nobody would even consider the "costs involved". It's just not something you think about.

I am puzzled by why the richest nation in the world prefers to spend 3.1 billions of dollars on arming Israel, or spend $700 billion military budget (even though its territory isn't being threatened in any way), rather than provide universal healtcare and education to its citizens, who live in fear of becoming sick.

I mean, I can understand why if you own a military supplier company, you'd rather have it that way. But I don't get why voters do not want universal healthcare.
I like that somebody called out that there is a lot of misinformation/crap around relativity and the speed of light.

The article points out that mass doesn't increase with velocity.

The next big lie is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. One thing can: Me (or you from your point of view). The whole time dilation thing only happens to other things/people. I can accelerate to any velocity. The universe just won't let me observe anybody else going faster than the speed of light. It doesn't change the fact that I can accelerate well past c and get to alpha centauri as soon as I am willing to expell propellant for. It's only everybody else time will do wonky things for.
> People who can, willing and want to go beyond the factoid soundbyte 0-24 screaming cycle?

Not you, apparently

> Of course, but it doesn't make the "whining" invalid.

Not necessarily, but it's completely self-defeating.

> Uncritically discussing ideas in front of such a huge audience is a problem. (That's why we have so many people who found shit on the Web and got so deep into the hole that now they are probably beyond repair. Basically just as extreme xenophobia/racism/bigotry/classism indoctrinated people in the past centuries now we have the Internet with its cacophony of bad ideas/memes.)

No, it's not. Uncritically discussing ideas in front of an engaged audience is literally the core of democracy. The Roman "Forum" was literally this.

> Umm, is it? Really? Was electing Donald such a great idea? Well, the media certainly made its deal with the devil.

Depends on who you ask. The current president has gotten record numbers of people active and engaged in political discourse and policy. People are interested in what our country is doing. All other things being equal, isn't that a net positive for democracy?

> Speaker's corner. The soap box. Such a noble idea.

> Except, well, look how great the UK is doing.

You mean after essentially removing free speech? Yes, look how well they're doing now. Wow, great example.

> Or .. just nothing. You are just an empty conduit, a blank screen.

JRE adds value by providing an honest environment. You don't get that in the news anymore, as you admitted.
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I believe the point the person you replied to was trying to make was that while they add telemetry and have issues with the products where they dominate the market, they try much harder to produce the best product when they are underdogs.

With IE, they started being user-hostile and taking their users for granted because they owned the market. The same thing they are currently doing with Windows 10. They do this because they feel like they can.

However, in markets they are trying to win, they are much more user-friendly and provide great products. You can see this in VS Code and the new Edge (personal opinions). Though, I do agree that just because they are being friendly now doesn't mean they won't do the same shit they did with IE once they gain the market back.

This isn't about Microsoft or Google's culture or history, this is the fact that any company that has little to no actual competition for a market will abuse that fact and take their users for granted.
But also understood to be 1 here.
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The official cross platform solution for GUI apps is Xamarin / Xamarin.Forms, though they are mostly focused on mobile. There are desktop renderers for those, but they are currently in some weird Schrodinger's Cat state between "officially supported" and "community supported".

There are other entirely community-supported/third-party efforts like Avalonia and Uno around as well.
Not Europeans — while you might have to wait for non-emergency things (depending on the country), emergencies are treated immediately. And I've never heard of anyone from the EU going to the US for medical care, that actually sounds rather amusing :-)
The backlog is not large and we don't use this meeting for prioritization.

Our team uses backlog grooming to point tasks and assign them "definitions of done". This is done to solve two problems: getting everyone on the same page as far as how the task will be done, which also speeds up diff reviews, and to determine if the task should be split up into smaller tasks.

When would you perform these tasks?

> Teams which constantly re-prioritise items which some fake product manager came up with a few months ago is not agile.

This is not at all what we do with this meeting.
I've heard in one of his videos that Jonathan Blow ditched the AOS -> SOA conversion feature, but he may come back to the idea sometime later.

(One problem with Jai is that unless you are viewing his Youtube videos regularly, you cannot catch up on what is going on with the language...)
> Since Rogan never cares to really question or seriously push back against any claims being made, the guests are free to spout as much "propaganda and BS" as they want

True. Guests are free to BS as much as they want. I would still argue this happens less frequently as you might think and certainly compared to any other interview format/medium.

Rogan has stated many times that there are people who won't come on his show because of the long running time. I take this as evidence that either these would-be guests are either programmed for short-form interviews (e.g. soundbites, making claims they can't back up with any objectivity) or the claims they would make do not hold up to any amount of scrutiny.

In this sense, I think the runtime/medium is the filter for BS – not the interviewer.
I mostly use Firefox, except I use Chrome for certain tasks at work [1]. There is one thing about Firefox that occasionally has me on the verge of ditching it for Chrome.

It has a terrible spell checker. I find about as many errors in its spelling as it finds in mine.

There used to be one other thing that really irked me, but it looks like they recently fixed that (I'm on the beta channel, so not sure if everyone has this yet). That was handling of keyboard shortcuts. Shortcuts, such as OPTION-HOME to go to the home page, did not work if the focus was in the address bar, the "search in page" field, or a text entry field on the page.

[1] Chrome's dev tools seem more responsive and better organized, and it handles multiple profiles better.
I wonder if someone can build something similar to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to preserve those pages and create a centralised archive?! Otherwise murderers and fraudsters get a clear start
It wasn't just the death of communism. Globalization also hurt labor unions. Capital could credibly threaten to move production to low wage countries and often did so. This greatly weakened the unions.
Costco debt collection via API composition
Nanoda: Type checker for the Lean theorem prover in Rust
I'm curious, is there a featmap for featmap? :)
Academic incentives are awkward. Computer scientists and other quants find it difficult to build careers in this stuff as it's often either too derivative to be cutting-edge ML ('you applied last year's tools to an education problem we don't care about, yay?') or too reductive to be useful in the target discipline ('you've got an automated system to tell us how newspaper articles are framed? Lovely, but we've been studying this with grad students reading them for 30 years and already have a much more nuanced view than your experimental system can give us').

That, and it's difficult to sell results to people who don't understand your methods, which by definition is practically everybody when making the first new applications in a field.

I'm a social scientist who can code, and even stuff like SVMs can be a difficult sale outside of the community of methodologists.

You're also spot on about annotated training data. The framing example above is my current problem, and there is one (1) existing annotated dataset, annotated with a version of frames which is useless for my substantive interest. Imagenet this is not.
On me, and the Media Lab
honestly the future is probably UTF-32. just make all code points 32-bits and use the 11 bits that Unicode says it will never use for flags so things like formatting can be encoded per character.
I think the most important thing is managing to convince dozens of sweat-shop, conveyor belt startups per year to give you equity for almost nothing, thereby guaranteeing at least some equity will eventually be worth billions merely by chance. Good job, YC.
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Waymo to make self-driving data set public to fuel research
Agreed. A lot of construction workers even have trucks with a the toolbox style gas tank in the bed. They have handles that look just like gas pumps.
If it's Lee Smolin, you can't take it seriously
Nit, but PLEASE date your essays. I have no idea if this is from 1998, 2008, or 2018, and it matters to how I read it. A lot.
One of the SimpleID founders here. When creating decentralized Apps (dApps) like Graphite (a project I started two years ago), I kept seeing users have a hard time signing up and in to the decentralized infrastructure I was using.

To fix this problem , we created Simple ID, which also makes it easier for developers to use Ethereum, Blockstack, IPFS, Pinata, and Textile in their dApps. All while giving their users the familiar and common email/password/recovery experience for signing up and in.

SimpleID is a custodial solution. So you as a developer are putting trust in what we've built, and end-users are putting trust in SimpleID. But we've made sure that end-users don't have to both trust all the apps that use SimpleID plus trust SimpleID. Every user gets complete control over their data, and they can take their accounts and use them elsewhere without SimpleID's involvement. In our eyes, decentralization is about user-choice and control, and that's what we are enabling.

No more cumbersome "easy to remember" 12 word passphrases to forget and lose your data forever. Our technology won't prevent the hardest of the hardcore from 12 word passphrase bliss and new sign up paradigms. However, it will enable the hardcore's not so techie family to get in on the dApp action too, simultaneously increasing user growth for dApp developers.

You can try it out, sign up and learn more here: https://www.simpleid.xyz/

Let me know if you have any questions.
Yes, Firefox Sync will sync the passwords between browser instances. It also offers the option to use a master password.

I've been using it without any issues for several years now.
Would those cases be considered misdiagnosis and incur reliability to the doctors?
> Stability and flexibility from Linux

I might have been using linux wrong. Because as a daily driver media consumption device, it has been anything but stable. I suspect it is because it was a laptop with a discrete graphics card, which for some reason completely trips linux up.

> Forced updates in Windows 10

I think this has been solved in a recent update
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But was it a jpeg? A gif? What type of image file?
That's great as long as the insurance company deigns to cover you. Before the ACA, that was not guaranteed.
> Yes, these political ideologies are "bad" (I'm not naming any here, fill in your own blank), but every idea, no matter how awful you find it, deserves a voice and public judgement.

Even pedophilia advocacy and Holocaust denial?
It used to be, pre Euro :)
> and the, what, 20g of daily antibiotics

20,000mg, am I reading that right? According to my non-medical background that's a shitload of drugs. Good to be reading this knowing you came out of it ok.
Joe Rogan is a great interviewer; he doesn't have an agenda, he doesn’t interrupt, allows their guests to speak their mind, asks interesting questions, doesn't steer the conversation. He's a pretty open minded guy and simply enjoys talking to people.

I listen to Joe Rogan not because of Joe Rogan but because of what his guests have to say without feeling pressured.
>Citing a bunch of studies about obesity changes nothing about the fact that _exercise_ is more important to health outcomes than _weight_.

This is pretty funny. They directly address and contradict the point your trying to make. Even the source you posted contradicts what you are trying to argue. Nice try though
Well, this is very similar to the Haiku project's goals, though of course on many of these fronts we're only partway there. Care to come join us? :)
I don't know if the site uses "mail city" as an equivalent to capital, because it also says "Hanoi is the mail city of Vietnam" (it's the capital but the largest city is Saigon/Ho Chi Minh, so it's debatable which one is the "main" one).

It's also full of other typos and badly formatted text, which I think is due to the data coming from a quick scrape of a source of dubious quality.
Another Scientist Leaves MIT Media Lab Due to Joi Ito's Association with Epstein
Nice overview.

I use https://www.viselio.com. They take it a step further and offer a fully automated visa application form.
My brother killed himself recently. So yes I do.

And nowhere at all did I suggest "a person's life is not worth the money."
posted on youtube 2h ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ58zf0vzB0
How to get software teams to actually write blog posts
The main problem in Linux is dependency updates, and I never understood how dependencies in Windows work. Are most programs built as fat binaries that carry all their dependencies with them? Or do Windows programs just never build on top of other 3rd party programs and always just depend on what's provided by the base OS?
Can you please make this available in Europe? I get “not available in your region” in the AppStore now.