skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not at the point where I care about a "beautiful" Linux on a laptop, I'd be happy with twm and Motif widgets if only the hardware would be 100% supported and everything would work.

For a reference point, a vanilla Ubuntu LTS install on random (non-certified) T-series ThinkPads still doesn't always suspend/wake up properly, doesn't hibernate properly, crashes X when used with a docking station, has issues with Bluetooth headsets (no microphone), has issues selecting the output audio device, doesn't support the fingerprint reader (I think), has hiccups with external screens, and altogether less battery life than in Windows. (I'm sure some of these work on other models and others have workarounds, this is just my recent experience with trying to run Linux without spending time on tweaks).

I would seriously consider switching my work machine to any laptop/distro combination that would get closer to the experience one has on MacOS (not perfect, but close enough to be productive), no matter where it was made.
The first public academic to my knowledge to begin crystalizing the problem of private prisons and the prison industrial complex was Angela Davis [1] -- I first remember hearing her address this in a 1998 lecture at Northwestern.

Ruth Wilson [2,3] has worked for years analyzing and working to end the expansion and privatization of California's prisons, through both academic and grass roots efforts [4]. Her "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" [5] book is both accessible and rigorous, I highly recommend it. I am a bit shocked that their and foundational work were not mentioned in the piece.

There's a discussion between Davis and Wilson here [6] where they surface the mass incarceration/private prison issue, and detail the pathology of California's prison system.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583225811/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPjC-7EDkc

[4] http://criticalresistance.org/

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gulag-Opposition-Globalizing-C...

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGPVPrJGXsY
It's not really stronger, given that non-halting programs run forever.
OMG, yes! Had a cracked windshield recently, sooooo expensive
And on every parking lots...
I wouldn't say they're similar. Brexit was because people lost faith in the leadership of the EU, mostly due to the migrant crisis, which is still ongoing years later. The Yellow vests are more analogous to Occupy Wall Street.
I don't follow this line of reasoning.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't astronomy the scientific study of celestial objects; and astrophysics is the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical nature of those celestial objects.

Why would either of those be the right consultants for UFOs, which are decidedly not celestial objects.
for ages we've been adding the miracle tag for things we don't fully understand.

just get used to it.
thanks! I will. But I think there are people here that could find it useful or interesting as well.
UK police arrest a number of climate activists planning Heathrow drone protest
Good stuff!
I like having both options - using the colours the displays were unable to display properly at the time or - on the other hand - getting as close as possible to the original experience.
Sound like that's the reason for this article aswell

PR campaign at its best
I'm a pre-final year undergrad failing to get a research internship in Computer Vision/Deep Learning/Information Retrieval abroad(I'm from India) because of poor grades(GPA 6/10).
I have won Kaggle Medal, various deep learning/machine learning Hackathons, got a job(Data Scientist) offer by the end of sophomore year and a few interview calls in the last 5 months all from great start-ups. They all didn't knew I was a still student or God knows why they approached.
Still nothing is helping.

I don't know how to approach the next two years. I don't wanna work in industry at least for now and enroll in a MS program.
> I'm sure landlords would love to raise prices to astronomical levels. I'm sure tenants would love to live in the apartment for free. So tell me, why doesn't that happen? Why is it that prices in a market will tend to stable point?

I'm not sure we are disagreeing?

> They can. That's called a 'lease'. It's common.

Indeed. And I'm saying that if people want what the law is providing, they can negotiate it voluntarily. So there's no good orthodox economic argument for the law. (Basically, no argument from market failure.)

(And, if you have a sufficiently clever financial derivative structurer, you could probably get around the law as well, if you really want to. Basically, you'd construct a swap between a fixed rent and a variable rent. Similar to an interest rate swap.

One big problem with such an insane scheme would of course be transaction costs---ie too much hassle to set up complicated derivatives or repo agreements etc for a private tenancy. Especially since a court might not allow a normal unsophisticated person to be bound by such a complicated contract, even if they wanted to. Tenants are treated like children.)
When you thought about it some more, did you come back?
> none of them were able to articulate a real political discourse, they were upset (and rightly so) but had no idea why.

This is so pedantic! Of course people know why they're angry. Of course if you watch TV or read mainstream newspaper they won't give you an idea; you would have to go to the protest yourself to escape the propaganda.

> They even rejected to meet political leaders or have spokespersons for months

And we still do! Nobody can represent anybody else. Representative democracy is the structure that failed us in the first place. Never again: we won't stop fighting until we have a direct democracy without a ruling oligarchy.

> In the end it was a mix

And the climate crisis. And education reforms promising even more brainless indoctrination. And the National Universal Service which is a nicer name for militarist/fascist propaganda aimed at children. And racist anti-immigration laws in which Macron doubled the maximum retention time for undocumented people (45->90 days). And police violence destroying the sense of community in whole districts. And health care workers slowly being pushed to suicide by an administration that wants to close down public hospitals to ensure a new economy for private health.

> no matter why you were upset you could fit in the yellow vest movement.

Except fascists are not welcome. Fortunately they were kicked out of most demos by popular outrage.

> secure nice social advances most of the rest of the world take X0 years to get

The truth is France is far behind much of the world in terms of social advances. It's one of the richest nations in the world, yet has ~10% extreme poverty, and much of the social system is slowly being dismantled... very similar in some regards to the USA.

Burning rich people's shit is literally the most peaceful we can do in times like these, given the pace at which they're killing us.

We deserve better. We can do better. Let's build a better world from the ashes of this unfair and violent society.
strcpy is optimized, memccpy not.

First use -march=native on a new clang (>5), and see if clang can optimize memccpy by itself. gcc probably not.

And BTW, gcc-9 is still broken and should be blacklisted everywhere.
Do we really need to discuss whether a democracy, with an elected parliament and leaders, seperation of legislative/executive/judicative power, etc. has more power balance?
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He is not changing scale. He is just illustrating what the probability means in terms of the size of the set you need to expect the event to occur once, which has a more practical value than a probability.
Agree, Reading may help you improve your thinking process and help you understand that it's fine if you don't fulfil your or other expectations from you.
Seems like nothing changed since 2007 with the approach towards software patents
Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe
Another great unit of measure is the bus factor.
France Hardens Position Against Facebook’s Libra Currency
Ken Thompson wrote B which is the direct predecessor of C. He was and is certainly a language designer and implementer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)
Any example of the Dutch bike experience ignore the most important fact: it's flat! Add hills and bikes are a lot less viable for the masses.

Electric bikes help flatten out the landscape, but they're currently too expensive to leave lying around and require charging etc.
There is barely space for bikes in trains, even in NL.
Well you add up all the rotation like stuff and square the result to get the probability. In the book QED Feynman describes it as adding little arrows to explain it to a lay audience. In physical terms it's probably most like adding waves and then the square of the amplitude or wave energy is the probability but not quite - no one really knows what the actual reality is.
Nice one, I laughed out loud.
Can't you just walk the last mile?
I 'd say most readers seem to be in management or sales. Would be nice to have a poll
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> So it's easier to make an apples to apples comparison?

That's exactly the point. How many people said yes for every one who said no:

50% -> 1 yes for every no

95% -> 19 yeses for every no

99% -> 99 yeses for every no

99.9% -> 999 yeses for every no
Have you tried searching for Facebook in the App Store? The first result is...Amazon.
> There's a special section in each cart that can fit like two or three bikes.

That's a clever design!
I agree, I was just nitpicking one detail. I made a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20953496
I have a strange gut condition in which my doctor agrees with me that having a job that pays me would be very good for my health, possibly allowing me to actually heal, but I cannot lose my health insurance because without my medication I cannot digest any food.

The physical problems all began during depression from losing my job, and symptoms often subside when I do volunteer work or help family members with things and just feel useful. But it has been 2 years and I have not found another job that will give me health insurance. I can get freelance work sometimes so that is helpful and hopeful, but I actually have to be very careful not to make so much that I lose health insurance. This makes me very useless and unable to contribute to my family who has helped me out so much in this time. It is a constant misery, yet I am a tremendously able worker who loves to work, even very long hours.

I am not sure how legal it is for me to even have health insurance, but I have no shame either way. That would be laughable to worry about for anybody in my situation.

Working hard in American has never been materially appreciated in my experiences. This country is completely broken. You only want dishonest people who say and act in ways ways that make you feel happy. No respect for human dignity. Everything is salesmanship, and value is a measure of abstract emotional signaling. What should we expect? It is hardly ironic. It’s what this society has been asking for as long as I have been alive.
They're a bad investment because they're riddled with debt. They've taken out long-term leases on properties that they're liable for. In a downturn their customers will probably vanish leaving them with their liabilities. Plus, they don't really have a moat. So all in all, it seems like the founder is doing anything possible to cash out before the house of cards comes crashing down.
> So if infantry really does need hardware to move stuff from A to B, the 1965 approach -- primitive as it is -- might be the simplest solution.

Putting threads on a box or crap on human backs?

Because whether at rest or in action (an other commenter provided a video) that thing looks like it would tip over if you looked at it funny, let alone "over rough terrain".
> I'm not entirely sure what makes fruit machine bad, football stickers good. I would guess trading stickers is a social activity, and theres an in build limit to how many stickers you need? Where do loot boxes come out on these measures?

Is it not simply that the fruit machines are more addictive than the sticker packs?

The reason for this I think is probably the blinking lights and sounds, live control of the interaction (transaction) and environment, versus an inert packet of cards / stickers, that can at best be extremely shiny.

Of course, games are in a position to completely control the transaction and environment for maximum addictiveness, and given the lack of regulation (vs regular gambling) and technology, they can actually go beyond what fruit machines can do (or are allowed to do) to people.

They could, in theory, also make a more "boring" loot box that doesn't quite exploit our psychology as mercilessly, just a transaction. And then it would be more like sticker albums. Provided that the game allows free trading of any items in the loot box. Because that means you actually get something in return that isn't just a consumable.

But games will inevitably choose for the exploitative option, therefore yeah, regulate the hell out of it. It's not really a huge loss to culture or anything, nor is there IMO any fundamental reason why it is okay for people to make money that way.
Remote work is a skill like anything else. Your litmus test is a gross over simplification of workplace dynamics.
People ultimately will despite all the press, it seems inevitable.
Yes.

The position in ads is determined by your bid times your google computed quality score.

Brand terms tend to have higher quality score than competitors.
I am not sure how hard is for you to not start side project again but you can start with small steps.
It is extraordinarily hard to photograph handhelds that lack backlighting, and I left my CRT back in the US so that's also out ^-^;

It would be a good idea to get some extreme close-up photos of the screens however, I'll keep that in mind for a future post.
My gym actually does that. The elliptical machines actually tell you how much power you're generating. Going at a moderate pace generates about 90 watts. That's enough to light up about 10 modern light bulbs.

You're going to be generating that energy while working out anyway and it has to go somewhere. I think the biggest benefit is being able to direct where that energy dissipates. You can either put those 90 watts into the air as heat through friction, or put it into electricity through some dynamo. The second choice will make it so the place doesn't heat up as quickly.
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That's exactly the case. There's pretty significant probability that you will die before diagnosed terminally ill patient that will die in 15 months time. Just check actuarial tables for your age and be scared.
Look up what (int*)ptr does in C.
But the 2x systems still cannot examine itself, but only half of it (being optimistic, because in addition to the 2x you also need the logic doing the stepping and the comparison). There is no finite system that is a true subset of itself.
Ingress was a hot thing while I was in university. We were roaming the streets at night, equipped with smartphones and powerbanks and were looking out for members of the other party, so we had enough time to build up solid links all across the town. Great time!
The last 5-10% takes up 90% of your time :(
Question: does anyone have any tips on how to recover from burnout at work?

I ask because I've taken the steps required to get myself out of an - unpleasant[1], let's say - work environment. I left my last job with a little bit of money in the bank, fully intending to set myself up as a freelance web developer; I did the research and planning work I needed to do before leaving. Everything was set to go - brave new chapter of my life etc.

Three months later, I'm still sitting at home trying to find the will to take the first steps. I know what I have to do - network, hustle for contracts, build that killer portfolio site. Interact with the real world. But ... I feel like an old rabbit caught in the headlights, not knowing where to hop. I doubt my skills and abilities. As each day passes I make plans to do stuff, and then I don't do them. As each day passes, I become more convinced that nobody would employ me anyway - so why make the effort?

I have absolutely no regrets about leaving my job. I felt, as I approached the fifth anniversary of my employment there, like a bomb primed and ready to detonate. Feeling that rage leach from my body in the weeks before and after my (planned) departure is one of the best feelings I've experienced in a long time. But the drive and determination I was expecting to feel in its place - it just hasn't turned up yet.

And my cash reserves are running out. Food doesn't put itself on the table.

Any advice on how to rediscover a missing Mojo would be very welcome!

[1] Small company with a wonderful business plan which greatly helped me develop my tech and soft skills as I moved into the tech industry. Sadly their business plan didn't work well so they pivoted, and pivoted again, and again, until by the end I was the last software engineer in the office, doing work I actively hated. I came very close to closing my laptop and running for the hills twice, before coming up with a plan to manage my exit in a planned, civilised way. Nobody's fault. Just the way the world evolves.
How can I read this article without creating a wordpress account?
I've posted questions there before but unfortunately got no replies. However, some friendly folks at Slack helped me a lot.
£1.50 is about what it costs me here (the grim north) to go around 3 miles. If you only wanted to go one stop, you wouldn't pay £1.50, but if it was free you might take the bus. This is the response from the bus people when I've discussed it with them, how do you prevent that kind of activity? They can't service one stop riders.

I suggested making the stops further apart!
This is simply a virtual form of real estate business.

As real estate brokers say, the price depends mostly on 3 things: location, location and location. If you are on Manhattan you pay more for that land than far away in Brooklyn. Similarly with the Domain Name System - shorter domain like www.abc.com is more desirable than www.hdhfjenyrj.goobledygook. There is no scarcity of string combinations for domain names yet people fight for desirable ones by paying a lot of money. It's a form of congestion pricing around naturally formed monopoly in desirable locations or domains.

These big tech platforms create their own land online - virtual estate. Limited human attention creates the scarcity of valuable locations where advertisers would like to show their ads. So they compete for being shown on Manhattan of the web - Google's top of the search results and Facebook's feed. The platforms can charge them huge monopoly, real estate like, prices for it.
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Yes, this is true. The price you pay per click is based on a ton of factors loosely proxying to "customer satisfaction". F.ex. Do alot of users bounce? Does it have a high CTR?

Considering the intent of users searching for "basecamp" they are pretty much guaranteed to get the best "customer satisfaction" metrics compared to competitors and therefor getting the best price.

My experience with branded searches is the CPC being somewhere around 1-10% the price of non-branded searches.
I am thinking that this is mostly marketing.

Plus, installing PV on a car is not new. Half the top tier engineering department in the US have a setup for that, some are nearly 20 years old. But PV have come down in price, they’re still not very efficient, and the benefit will be marginal. I’d rather install PV on every parking lot instead, that way it is always connected to the grid. Unlike the car which is only connected when plugged in.
Kids are far more destructive for the environment than cats, though.
Paper:

CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Mode for Controllable Generation (Largest Publicly Available Language Model)

https://einstein.ai/presentations/ctrl.pdf

Link to model release:

https://www.github.com/salesforce/ctrl
Individual people would likely not negotiate themselves directly, because they are not lawyers. But they would take contract terms into account when comparing places to rent.

"700 USD per week" vs "800 USD per week and rent increases limited to 7% a year" are relatively straight forward things to compare.

You are right that landlords have a limited monopoly power when people have moved in. (And depending on market conditions tenants also have limited monopsony powers, because it's a bit of a hassle to find a new tenant.)

But those kind of longer term engagements are pretty common in the commercial world. And they are often solved with contracts.

What's keeping people from coming up with those terms themselves?

Note: I am not suggesting that landlords agree to those terms out of the goodness of their heart. They would offer such a ceiling on the increase eg in return for a higher starting rent. They are essentially selling a call option.

If they price the option premium right, they would make money. Just like any other kind of extended waranty you can buy.
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I’m pretty sure the CMU folks have been parenting their stuff The whole time: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tjochem/nhaa/ralph.html
The issue is hyper-optimization is very easy to break and very hard to maintain. In a way it's an anti-pattern you should do only if there's no other way to grow.

That is: if you want a car to go faster you may improve the engine, or focus to make the car lighter. If you hyper-optimize the engine the smallest variation in the fuel will affect performance. If you hyper-optimize the weight you better watch out on your own diet :) otherwise the car won't be as fast as intended.

All in all it often goes back to following the Pareto principle. If you need to hyper-optimize you landing pages you probably need to focus elsewhere. You need good landing pages, not perfect ones.
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You are the most free when you have nothing to lose. A failed suicide attempt can be thought of as that Every Single Moment from that point in life is a Bonus.

I know because I was there :) I should have died a few years ago, but didnt. Not giving a fsck and also being adventurous is a nice combo.
The surprising thing is that a bit of arithmetic results in something like geometry.