skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the amount of VC money being burnt every day by some startups with no future, this $3.6m is well spent.
I think it about the power. It just _seems_ unjust that a man who committed such a crime can hold power.

I'm not against giving criminals a second chance, but to let them into the inner circles of power is different.
Among other things, completeness of simplex, trust-region like optimization, problem space search algorithms.
Also poetry might make for a good lm context. Nonsenicalness can be explained as artistical expression.
My understanding from his various posts online (and website [1]) is that he owns and lives near the land where the filming takes place. In Far North Queensland these sorts of areas would not be difficult to come across, not even far from a major town.

He probably just walks or (more likely) drives home each day.

[1] - https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/about/ :

"Also It should be noted that I don’t live in the wild but just practice this as a hobby. I live in a modern house and eat modern food. I just like to see how people in ancient times built and made things."

Insect-wise, Ross River Virus is a problem in that part of the country. It's spread by mosquito. You wouldn't catch me outside at night up there in summer, at least not without protection.
Once around the ring is not an issue. It's a day at the track that's a problem, not one lap. And not an issue at all if you're fine with waiting periodically while the battery temp comes back to optimal.
I like that you can compare individual US states to various countries, but it would love to be able to compare individual Australia states as well (Hint: I live in AU). It was interesting to see that Alaska is about the size of Western Australia.

Having always heard that we can fit 20 United Kingdoms in the Northern Territory (the state, oh, all right, territory, where I live), I wanted to check that out for myself against the UK and other countries.
Incidentally, it is threads like these that make me regret posting anything on HN. Respond to a vaguely worded FUD with a specific first-person example (of doing something for almost 20 years, no less), and get downvoted into negative territory.
For about a year I lived off ~$16/week(not including rent) here in Sweden (which is not known as a cheap country to live in). I could just about get by and put away some meager savings. But those savings were continuosly lost to random unforeseen expenses in the $20 range.

In my opinion it's not possible to live like that for any longer stretch of time. As soon as an emergency presents itself, you're wiped out and end up destitute. I had the luck of being young and mentally and physically healthy, and I only had to provide for myself. That being said, it wasn't an easy time for me. 1/10 would not recommend.
They do.

Its a robotic form of expression you see everywhere these days. People are trained how to do one thing well for one context. They take that blindly and apply it to everything they see whether it fits or not. They do it blindly because thats what all the other "educated" folk are doing.

Jaron Larnier has a nice term for it - digital maoism.

You see it in how Journalists and news orgs behave when you visit poorer countries. They are all trying to be CNN in fancy suits and surrounded by flashy graphics covering a cancer ward with no electricity. You see it in the Entrepreneurs and Engineers who want to emulate Apple or Google, more worried about the smoothness of GUI and the typography and icons than thinking about why an uneducated poor person needs it.

While this cognitive dissonant prettification style is all pervasive, whats really interesting is not everyone falls for it. Somehow nature has ensured populations will always have people who go the other way. And thank god for them.
Thanks all, that makes sense.
This doesn't sound like the use case that the parent comment was describing. Parent comment was about what is inferred if you are a user and no longer have FaceRec setting on, but used to have it on at one point, and opted out. That's why the speculation was that "facebook will never "delete its internal record of your face" as the title states."

Edit: not to be snarky, because I'm pretty sure that wasn't your intention, but it sounded like you were doing exactly this:

> This cleverly gives facebook some cover. Bob might ask facebook, "don't use my face to surveil my friends", but facebook can say "how could we possibly do that? We don't associate your face with your account, so we can't associate your face with your preference, even if we wanted to."

Everyone understands how opting out works and what it means (I mean, some of your bosses pretend they don't, but even they do). Of course you can't create a template when the setting that disables template creation is on. The question is what do you do with data that you inferred in the past, and what kind of privacy can be expected if you opt out of a feature after it's been used. That's particularly important given this industry's history of opting in for you.
I think that's their plan, see this article about their push into lobbying

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-melinda-gates-lob...
Here's a whitepaper that did some benchmarks and a detailed analysis on it. Was posted on hn a few days ago.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08089

They test various network conditions with some results showing DoH and DoT loading webpages faster than udp dns (due to tcp timing out faster than udp on lossy connections )
There's substantial value in a legally constructed, code complying, permitted residence. Especially in areas where development is costly and/or frequently difficult to impossible like desirable parts of CA.
What people are upset about is not that he was insufficiently ostracized. I don't understand why you keep framing it that way. It's not like he was so reviled he had trouble buying groceries or going to a restaurant. He was fine. Harvard and MIT would have also been 100% fine if they simply didn't take money from a child rapist. The fact they did and knowingly looked the other way is what is appalling.
Yes, though the buildings on the land can be a multiplier that makes up for the cost. I own the leasehold of a flat, and I’m collecting more rent than the freeholder (landholders? I forget the terminology) of the land it’s on is collecting from me as ground rent.
Negroponte was DNI when Epstein was on trial, it makes no sense.
Where are you legitimately allowed to live outside?
Hrhr. But talk about how it intends to prevent censorship...
Alone it's probably not enough. In combination with other design decisions, it could be the key though. Take for example the smaller battery. Normally that would be a big limiting factor as battery size is somewhat indicative of maximum power output. But by shifting gears once through the acceleration curve, they can compensate for the lower max power. Furthermore, they could keep higher speeds with less constant power output.

The reason this matters is because a smaller battery will produce less heat overall, which will be easier to cool, and so on.

Anyway it's just a theory. The facts remain: the Taycan can do something the Teslas can't and this gearbox is the biggest single meaningful difference in design of the powertrain. It stands to reason they are related facts to some degree or another.
A technical comparison between snaps and debs
>"We asked ourselves why the world had to be like this and what we could do to help. Our search for answers altered the course of our lives and led us to start our foundation."

It's a shame but it seems to me like Bill came up with the wrong answer due to a bad diagnosis of the problem.

If you really want to help these people, your best bet would be to highlight how rampant corruption affects these countries and how their rulers should be held accountable for it.

Foreign aid, by itself, will never be enough to solve this problem as long as there are tyrannical and corrupt regimes.
I would ordinarily agree, but the Epstein case is exceptional for two reasons.

First - "paying his due" in this case meant a plea deal widely considered to be very lenient. On top of that, the plea deal not only resulted in no useful testimony from Epstein against other criminals, it had an extraordinary provision granting immunity to his co-conspirators! The accusation that the deal was made in bad faith specifically so the government could protect Epstein's conspirators (many of whom were rumored to be prominent politicians, including foreign leaders of US allies) was plausible enough that the US Secretary of Labor actually resigned in July over his involvement in making the deal.

Second - while this dips into conspiratorial territory, there is widespread confusion as to where exactly Epstein's money came from and whether it had anything to do with the sex trafficking. None of the typical players who would be familiar with the deals made by a New York hedge fund had ever worked with him, and he didn't appear to have either a real staff or any real record of investments that such a fund would make. There is a very plausible theory that the money in Epstein's fund came from Epstein getting other billionaires to participate in his sexual abuse ring and then blackmailing them. Needless to say, this makes the idea of taking his money even more problematic.

Much of of this wouldn't have been known to Ito years ago when he first took the money, but it's all out in the open now, and the way the Media Lab has been handling it doesn't reflect well on them.
On iOS, I use SkyView. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skyview/id404990064
Yes, you don't need to switch to a browser.
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Thanks for the information, I haven't used Exim since I last used Debian where it was the default MTA in the 1990's. I wasn't trying to imply that they weren't smart. If Ubuntu has it setuid root, than that's a different issue, although I still don't see why it wouldn't drop those privileges at the earliest opportunity.
amazing - how demanding is Stellarium to run?
I concur that using a neural net as a sub-block of the simulator is probably a bad idea, because NN are approximations and summing them over simulation-time is only going to result in worse approximations.

I'm quite bullish on the other hand for using NN in chemistry. If you use NN at a higher level (for example predicting which reactions will happen and finding pathways), it makes a lot more sense, it's akin having an experienced chemist. A tool like Chematica (database of chemical reactions to find pathways which got bought by Merk) can almost certainly benefit from neural networks where you can try to find similarly-shaped molecules that will have a similar behavior but be cheaper to produce.

I'm also bullish, on the use of all the NN machinery, for the use of simulators. NN frameworks are one way to be able to use efficiently large amount of compute. In fact there are kind of dual problems : In machine learning you try to minimize some energy function while in Hamiltonian Physics simulation you try to keep the energy function constant.

Making approximations in these equations (for example in the way to represent a field, summing in a different order, neglecting zeros), can often result in faster computation for the same accuracy. In fact, if you write the simulator as a Monte-Carlo sum, you can train a NN controller using the trajectory approximation, to do what you want to do, folding the exact simulation computation time inside the training loop of the NN.
There are captions on the video explaining some of it. This wall is only temporary storage of the bricks while they dry. The roof keeps them (somewhat) protected from rain until they're ready to be fired into stronger bricks.
Now see if any of those were reported in the mass media. Not The Verge. Not Vice. No tech publications. Front page of BBC news, The Washington Post, NY Times, etc.
I use a similar rule for those git commands that either take one or two branch names. The latter one must obviously be the current branch by default.
> What people are upset about is not that he was insufficiently ostracized.

> Harvard and MIT would have also been 100% fine if they simply didn't take money from a child rapist. The fact they did and knowingly looked the other way is what is appalling.

Do you not believe these statements are literal contradictions of each other?
> The Tesla single speed setup seems to be really tuned towards low end acceleration, which admittedly is a logical thing to tune for in a premium family sedan.

It's probably actually tuned for range/consumption. The Taycan gets roughly 2/3 the range of a Model S despite better aerodynamics and almost the same battery size.

We'll see what EV drivers value more, track performance or range.
You made simple and understandable mistake.

Gates talks explicitly about World Bank’s international poverty line measured in PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) dollars. It accounts for differences in the cost of living across countries (the PPP exchange rates).

example: PPP for India is 18.128. In India the international poverty line ($1.9 PPP) is $0.10 per day in USD.

---

Gates writes:

> Still, the number of people living on less than $2 a day—$1.90 is the World Bank’s international poverty line—is over 700 million.

and links to article that defines the powerty line: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/10/04/w...
I guess that's the first mover disadvantage. You get the tech first. It's not as good as second gen but you are sort of stuck with it since you already have a ton of infrastructure built around it. When the rest of the world adopts second gen and builds it's infrastructure around second gen and never bothers with first gen you lag behind hoping you'll catch up on third gen or so. The problem with units is that there's no third gen. SI system is just math and physics for the first and last time figured out correctly and that doesn't usually change for thousands of years.

In SI world there are still small pockets of old units. Like pipes measured 3/8, 3/4, 1/2, 1. The thing is they are isolated enough that almost nobody cares what the number means. Everybody just know that you need a 3/4 to fit with 3/4 you have. It becomes just a label.
My history goes mostly to my carefully chosen, overseas VPN provider. Yes, there are no good choices, best you can do is to split your data between several parties, so its hard to correlate. Google has data on most people on the planet, unlike London Police, so giving Google your data is way more dangerous than other parties combined. And user data is Google primary business model.

And I wouldn't spend much time analysing policies, they are all "we pinky swear". Its is there a business incentive in using my data or not.
I think I agree with you, but just to make sure it is said;

Based on Atlas Shrugged; Ayn Rand was a terrible writer. There was no reason whatsoever to read that book apart from its political message. It wouldn't rate an entry in the database let alone a star rating. It was still well worth reading because it is the only representative of that political message out there. If someone is going to take to take that message to heart Atlas Shrugged may well be the only place to find it in the readily available canon.
> https://github.com/gnome/devilspie - Page not found

;-( Where get it now?
This link pops up every other month on HN, and every time it makes me remember all those nights spent trying to find in the sky the stars I had seen on the software and I smile :).

So thanks I guess!
A labor of love.
Postfix is rock solid in my experience. And probably more flexible than people give it credit for. There’s a ton of configurability. I’ve used it for over a decade now and every issue I’ve run into has been my error or something else in the stack or path.
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I eagerly await to see the Taycan's range at 120+ mph. evcalc.ch suggests it would be around 164 Km for 200 Km/h (Turbo S).
Nah, you threw the baby out with the bath water there; the other East Asian countries that embraced the west became much much richer much much faster after WWII.

China just managed to dramatically shit itself from the Great Leap Forward through to the early 90s, and is now undergoing the growth spurt that it’s Eastern neighbours experienced decades previously.
Helmets don't eliminate concussions. It's time for the NFL to ditch them
Notably, that quirk was the impetus for the link called "web" under every HN submission. Which, in my experience, still does work more often than not to get around paywalls.
>> not wasting too much of your time out of the office

Why not, though? It 's nice to have a bit of a break for lunch. What's the rush?
I don't think there's ever been an understanding that once you walk free from prison your reputation and legacy is wiped clean.

If that were the case it would be socially acceptable to commit a crime, serve a sentence to "pay your debt", then walk right out and do the same thing again. Clearly this isn't the case.

Completing your sentence means you have a chance to start atoning for the harm you've caused and rebuilding your reputation gradually over time.

If Epstein had devoted his time and funds to, say, helping his victims recover and campaigning to discourage/prevent others from committing similar crimes, perhaps some forgiveness may be forthcoming, but I don't know of any evidence that he did anything like that.
I fully agree that it feels wrong and weird that you would give your money to a bank and get less money back later. But if I stop and think a bit further, that feeling starts to feel less and less justified. Here are a couple of reasons:

1. We talk about nominal values, not real purchase power. You should not care what is the number on your bank account but how many apples you can buy it. And with that measure, banks have been "stealing" your purchase power almost always. (Actually I think it is impossible in the long term to have banks pay more than inflation rate)

2. Assuming you save 100 dollars and expect to have 101 dollars in one year's time, central bank can decide to lower the interest rates so that you have less than 101 dollars one year later. Why would central bank "taking" from your 101 to 100 be any less stealing than from 100 to 99?

3. Finally, you agreeing to lend your money to the bank with whatever interest rate bank offers is completely voluntary action from your side. Not only you can choose to consume the money immediately, there are also practically limitless other opportunities to invest (or "invest"...) your money. Corporate debt, real estate, equity, cryptocurrency, gold, commodities etc. Now, of course, you can argue that these other options are somehow less practical or more risky in certain ways, and that society needs to keep your hand and guarantee you a risk-free and practical way to move your consumption decisions over time. And that society needs to make this guarantee to you completely regardless of the welfare cost (unemployment, recessions etc) delivering this guarantee has. At this point, my nose is starting to detect the repulsive smell of socialism, totalitarianism or something like that...
If it is of any help, you can get his latest videos via the feed at https://youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCAL3JXZSzSm...

The channel_id can be changed to retrieve videos from other channels.
Nah, a house is an asset. A depreciating asset but an asset nonetheless.

Depreciating asset !== liability.
Then you'd be mistaken, because Project Zero has covered both Android and Chrome vulnerabilities.
What Is the Jezebel Spirit?
English food kind of deserves its reputation, but the foreign food is just fine IME. Especially Indian.
You can read it via Pocket at least, that's pretty convenient on Android.
I don’t think I’ve ever had an interview where one of the questions wasn’t “why are you looking to leave your current position”. Also, “what are you looking for in your next role?” Is an important question. They both tell you as an interviewer whether you think they will dislike your company for the same reason and can your company offer what they are looking for. I mostly tell the truth to both questions. I want to self select out of companies that don’t meet my requirements.

26 on the other hand is a dumb question. I wouldn’t have anyway of knowing who didn’t think highly of me besides my manager via performance reviews unless I solicited gossip.
> someone else does it, maybe better, open sources it, community forms around it, you're toast

Oracle is very much okay still with superior technology, despite open source, and community, if we are talking about PostgreSQL.
Indeed, kind of the point I was making, maybe not clearly enough. I don't remember the last remote root exploit discovered for Postfix, or even if there ever was one.
The difference is, DNS-over-HTTPS seems to support cookies and identification. DNS only identified the IP of a person.

So it’s clearly an upgrade for Google.
Hehe, when I was doing my astrophysics major I always felt I was cheating a bit, using Stellarium to help me do my observations.
Just like add and remove features did in Windows of the era. However, the bundled Webkit components like system web view are not uninstalled, the icon for the front end is merely hidden
With a .sig or. asc extension? gnu differs from gpg here.
Facebook's launch of a search engine in imminent
Facebook is about to directly compete with Google for search. What do you think, can they win?
It's nice to sit in a park and eat lunch. It's less nice to stand in a queue watching other people's sandwiches and coffee being made before you get yours.
If you want Stellarium for Android I highly recommends you install «Stellarium for Android»[0] (extended FLOSS fork of «Stellarium Mobile»[1]).

[0] https://github.com/chengxinlun/Stellarium-android

[1] https://www.stellarium-labs.com/stellarium-mobile
Or they are part of the oppressive regime and want to launder their money.
A lot of people would say yes, and I would not call them objectively wrong to have that opinion.
Poverty in the United States
Though it happened some times ago, the TRIM clinical trial was really a real small scale research.
According to the following info:
http://interveneimmune.com/?ignition_product=the-triim-trial

http://interveneimmune.com/?page_id=1200
This company is found by Greg Fahy, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-founder
-Published the first report of thymus regeneration in a normal human; Granted patents on methods for and applications of human thymus regeneration
–Fellow of the American Aging Association (since 2005), Former Director of the American Aging Association (16 years)
–Editor-in-Chief, The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension
–Awarded the Society for Cryobiology’s Luyet Medal in 2016
–In 2009, showed indefinite survival of rabbit kidney transplanted after cooling to -130° Celsius; Led 21CM team as co-winner of Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize, 2018 winner of Large Mammal Brain Preservation Prize
and
Steve Horvath, PhD, Scientific Collaborator
-Professor of Human Genetics & Biostatistics at UCLA
-Developer of the DNA methylation clock of human aging, as well as author of seminal papers demonstrating ability to accurately predict life expectancy, onset of Alzheimer's, cognitive decline, and more
-Paul G. Allen Distinguished Investigator
-Ph.D. Mathematics at UNC, Sc.D. Biostatistics from Harvard University