skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More in the same vein from the always excellent Derek Lowe: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/07/25/go...
To be clear, it is BookKeeper that can alternatively use etcd not Pulsar.

https://bookkeeper.apache.org/bps/BP-28-etcd-as-metadata-sto...

https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/commit/c7f1e70f437423ed...
We”Work”, a 41B Dollar Pretend Workplace
What do you think India and China are doing which causes all that pollution?
Moving Forward Boldly with Kin [Kik Shutting Down]
Unity Simulation
Out of the mind and into the body: exercise, yoga, dance, slacklining, cooking, hiking in nature. Sex is great, too :)

Take your friends/kids to the beach and jump in the waves.
Wow, is all this really necessary now? Decades ago I recall programmers being immensely proud of their Z80 queue functions that didn't disable interrupts. They were needed for the same reasons the article spells out: dealing with hard real time events. But all it took to break it was another programmer leaving interrupts off we a wee bit too long in another piece of code, so we replaced these things with hardware queues that grew bigger and bigger over time - even UARTS had them.

I am sort of amazed that audio recording hardware doesn't provide at least 100 milliseconds worth of buffering. It's all of 600 bytes of memory on a 48k bit/sec stream, so it would cost them nothing.
While I agree with it not being as suitable for intermittent users as table, it is also much more powerful. And, you need not separately specify rows and columns.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/grid-templa...

And, if you find yourself repeating yourself, you can use variables!
Except some professors / PhDs deliberately set up exercise in a way that they involve large-ish (3-5 digits) or stupidly large (9+ digits) numbers to turn otherwise trivial exercises mostly into a mental math test. (Another all-time favourite of mine was the guy who always included an exercise in his exams that required you to determine the non-trivial prime factorization of a four digit number).

Good exam questions can be approached in multiple ways and are not a mental math test.

Bad math exam questions are usually those that can only be solved using one specific technique or lemma (ideally one that was only mentioned in passing once or twice) or require a lot of error-prone calculation.
Why so many comments about a ban? There isn't any mention of a ban... even if prosecuted for marketing to minors and found guilty, does not mean the product will be banned...

Should Juul be found guilty they will be punished via fines, just like a tobacoo company.

Of course Juul knew this and decided it was worth it because if their device went viral, which it did, they would be locked in as a market leader, which they are.

All they have to do now is lawyer up and try to survive the next year or so and they are locked in.

If they are fined so hard as to go out of business, the product is still not banned and you would have the next in line take the market leader position.

The product is here to stay, banning the devices will be more difficult than banning marijuana (which is a loosing battle).

Will Juul be a brand in the United States in 5 years? Maybe?

Will we still have e-cigarettes in the United States in 5 years, definitely.

If prohibition really occurs of course we will have 3d printed vapes and an even strong black market vape.

I think regulation will likely occur, likely making it require a prescription, but that is still not an outright ban.
Who's buying the products built in Chinese factories?
Sure, that's the argument. But given the number of people using it it's impossible that that's how most people are actually using it.
Why can't we ban ibuprofen?

Nicotine is an extremely complex molecule which has been proven to have positive effects in the treatment of autism, as well as mild cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer disease. Blanket statements like this are harmful to the general nature of science and show a disregard for empirical evidence.

Nicotine can be utilized for positive measures at therapeutic levels and was in Phase III clinical trials with the FDA for such uses before the backing pharmaceutical firm ran out of money. I recommend you do some research on Nicotine as a compound and interactions with nicotinic receptors in the body, the pharmacology is actually fascinating.
LinkedIn Data Scraping Ruled Legal
Great idea. Kudos for launch. Bookmarked.

What striked me is JSHeapTotalSize, never really think the ADs are eating so much RAM / resources (make sense). In Guardian case this accounts for 50% more allocation.
For me, personally, the biggest points for Nim are:

- "Transpiled" to C, with some options regarding runtime library, which means you can target any uController out there

- Good metaprogramming support

- Static and _strong_ typing

- Consequently, precise type aware function dispatch

- Type inference

- Good generics

Also, more stuff like covariants and contravariants and... maybe you just have a look-see? ;-)
The only way to have a way for OEMs to provide a proctor mode in the context of the test is to take away your personal freedom to use your device in all contexts. The cure is vastly worse than the disease.

It would on the other hand be trivial to provide a device owned by the school that Only runs calculator software without admin access. It would also probably cost at least a $100 per unit and be less familiar to students.

On the other hand it could be trivially used to say read electronic books/videos when not in use during tests.
Im not a UI dev but for my basic stuff I stuck with bootstrap since it supports every browser for positioning.
Url changed from https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/462541-indonesia-t..., which points to this.
To the extent that Apple is successful at lobbying for tariff exemptions, what has happened is that Apple has diverted resources from the thing it is actually good at (hardware and software) and has diverted them into legal and lobbying fees.

We can't expect firms to excel in their core competencies when they are hamstrung by politicians that are trying to reduce economic freedom worldwide.

Apple Computer exists because of economic freedom, not in spite of it.
True but that's for large amount of semi simple things, not conceptual reasoning, right .?
For a slightly less doom and gloom point of view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSCF6JNW4oE

Sean Carroll with "Ramez Naam on Renewable Energy and an Optimistic Future"
I love articles and papers like this. They keep illustrating that the people writing them do not get it:

Guess who classified the blonde white woman "a dish" on a Mechanical Turk? Do you think it was that Billy Bob from the swamp of Louisianan who makes $12/hour? Because $12/hour is impossible to make classifying images. Or do you think it was a dirt poor Indonesian or Filipino or Chinese or Indian for whom that's the best job he or she could possibly get and that's exactly how they view the world and there are over three billion of them?
Apologies if it sounded condescending; it was the "I really don't understand how..." part of the post that, in turn, sounded to me as condescending - as if there's no plausible way anybody would prefer a cop over a camera, to the point you can't even understand why somebody would think so. It sounded dishonest because I feel, and perhaps I'm wrong, that with some effort to understand another person's perspective, most HN audience would be able to understand why somebody might prefer a cop over a camera.

I am still not certain - were you literally unable to understand why somebody would prefer a cop, or were you unwilling to make the effort, or - something else? :|
What exactly is the US federal government doing? (I won't deny individual cities and states have announced plans) The current administration and party in the Senate majority denies that the problem even exists and is actively purging various government departments of dissenters. It has pulled our (or is pulling out) of the Paris accords, is actively pushing coal and gas production.

India is going in the opposite direction.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/pledges-and-t...

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/india/pledges-and...
I wonder if the article author knew what he was hinting at when he chose the example of the art project calling someone a "dish"???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEX7xsYF1nA

(And now I'm gonna be listening to 90s electro-disco all day...)
Did you get some of that Japanese chalk? The good shit? There's a Japanese brand of chalk that's like the Cuban cigar of chalk, because the factory closed down due to low demand so now there's a limited global supply and mathematicians are buying it up because of course. You should score some if you can.
Not necessarily. It depends on what's hanging out on the same plasmid as the resistance gene, and if that confers an advantage.
Macstadium buys hundreds of them every month.

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstucki/status/11334877389156...
Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
This was originally going to be published on the internal ticket, but since the issues were raised here I'm going to post here instead.

First, I'd like to point out that Raptor already identified one of the major problems here -- that front line support failed to keep you notified of back end progress in diagnosing the problem. Raptor Computing Systems is an OEM and ODM first and foremost, not a services and support firm -- their capacity to handle requests is limited by the amount their customers are willing to pay at time of product purchase, and internal management of RCS is trying to balance support costs with all other costs and overall product pricing. They may not always get it right, but they are trying nonetheless.

Yes, this was brought to my attention as a result of the review. That review has apparently caused sufficient damage that Raptor will now be reevaluating whether they can afford to service the individual market at this time, or whether they need to focus on business users only.

My personal take:

I am saddened to see x86 and locked computing profiting from this, but at the end of the day individuals have always been a difficult segment to target. They tend to want extremely low (below cost) pricing, high levels of service, and generally want to run various proprietary games on Windows while simultaneously settling for a false sense of security through open source firmware wrapping large hidden binary components. Out of sight, out of mind, purchase price above all other concerns seems to be the general takeaway for that market.

As a result of this mentality, individuals are not currently Raptor's core market, and at the end of the day the individual computing market will get what it is willing to pay for. If that's locked (but cheap) x86 computing, open source itself may be in serious trouble due to the impending final lockdown of those platforms. If it's instead cheap low power computing (RISC-V, low end ARM) there's an awful lot of fat that will need to be removed from near-essential projects like Qt, KDE, Gnome, Firefox, Chromium, GCC, Clang, etc. to better fit them on the lower end platforms. I have not seen any developers yet willing to put in the time and effort to re-architect those systems for low end computing resources; in many cases the fundamental design would need to be changed (i.e. remove interpreted scripts as much as possible, go back to C/C++ or a similar low level language, etc.). In the case of projects like Chromium, it may simply not happen as the intent of that particular project is partly to serve ads and DRM protected content through a portal system, which aligns nicely with the idea of locked end user computing on x86.
> No street, certainly not your residential 25-mph variety, is safe from being Wazed into a makeshift freeway or thoroughfare. ... These thousands of homeowners and renters have arguably been injured by Waze’s and Google’s successful privatization of formerly public streets.

This is exactly backwards.

The streets were effectively privatized before, via obscurity. It is Waze that has made formerly private streets public.
Investigations can result in a great deal of inconvenience, and occasional retribution from the target. It’s okay to prudently decline to volunteer almost certainly useless information if it doesn’t seem worthwhile.

Edit: it seems to be unclear that this is a pragmatic decision made millions of times a day around the world, and not particular to Juul.
> ...preferring to determine a root cause and fix it instead of just swapping parts to make it go away.

May I recommend a more customer-friendly way of doing this? Allow the customer to exchange their iffy hardware first, then do the investigations on your time, with the hardware in your labs.
Well, science has been spelling this out in "scientific" terms for the last few decades. And because science usually tends to prefix its conclusions with heaps of disclaimers and "assumings"s, "if"s and "probably"s nobody has been listening. So there you go, scientists seem to be sick of being ignored...?
Not sure you guys understand AI and ML. Neither of these actually "think" for instance. By way of example, the only thing this AI really does, at base, is classify things into categories that the curator told the AI to classify them into via the dataset. I mean, that's pretty much it. There is no bias. There is no lack of bias. It's just blindly doing what the curator told it to do. Don't mistake that for "thinking". That's more AGI, which is not likely to happen in the lifetime of anyone reading this post.
Like Go, Crystal embeds the runtime inside of the executable by default so it doesn't require the user to install the language runtime libraries on the users computer unlike Java, C#, etc.

The only way to get a true portable statically-linked Crystal binary on Linux is to compile your program statically using an Alpine Linux Docker container. MacOS portability shouldn't be a problem since everything is static except for libSystem.dylib.
It's easy to slough off things that are overwhelmingly scary when you have effectively 0 leverage to change them.
This isn't legal advice, but a lot of the restrictions around buying and using explosives on your own land for personal purposes is waived for binary explosives. You can go and buy tannerite, mix it on-site, and use it as an explosive firearms target and blow stuff up. Zero licensing required to do this.

NB: Do not do this if you have a felony conviction since this that makes it a crime.
> I thought revealing the ugliness of the system was part of the point of this project?

It 100% is. From the link to the artist's website:

"Things get strange: A photograph of a woman smiling in a bikini is labeled a “slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop.” A young man drinking beer is categorized as an “alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse.” A child wearing sunglasses is classified as a “failure, loser, non-starter, unsuccessful person.” You’re looking at the “person” category in a dataset called ImageNet, one of the most widely used training sets for machine learning."
I use Suzy grids 2 for ie and everything above and it works great.
He might be referring to the fact it is closed source and there is no way anyone could figure out what it really does.
This is very true. How do you think this problem could be fixed?
Of course not, that's not something I would ever claim.

But, given a choice between serverside code that you absolutely can't inspect no matter what, and a binary blob that you can read with a bit of extra work, wouldn't you prefer the binary blob?

Where serverside logic is concerned, it doesn't even matter if the underlying code is Open Source. I still can't inspect the instance and tell if it's running the correct code, or what its parameters are.
Well yeah, step one is showing that there is a problem. Bias training has to do something for the not insignificant amount of people that don’t believe that they have a noticeable bias. If you actually want the training to be effective you have destroy the “but I can’t be racist because...”

There’s nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to having bias: women think other women are less competent than their male coworkers, trans women struggle with thinking of other trans women as men, black men find other black men threatening. Your first thought is the one you’ve been conditioned to think and is broadly speaking shared by everyone. It’s when you don’t stop to have the second thought — your own thought that’s the problem.

“No, that’s silly. I’ve seen her work — she absolutely knows what she’s talking about.”

“She’s a woman. Full stop.”

“That guy is just minding his own business and given zero actual signs of being a threat.”
Imagine Rust Failed
As someone who spent years in those villages I can tell you it is exactly how they view the world. The only posturing comparable to the one coming from the so called enlightened anti-racist comments that I ever heard/read about was Marie Antoinette saying "Let them eat cake". She ended up without her head.
With VC you are actually investing in new businesses whereas with stocks, unless you are buying at IPO, you are just buying a piece of a pie. And the upside is much greater. What these results show is that a16z maybe needs to be more discerning but not that the business model is unsound
The counterexamples: Facebook and Microsoft exist, yet Slack is worth over a billion dollars.

Facebook, Microsoft and Cisco exist, and Zoom is over a billion. I can't find a valuation for Bluejeans is doing, but they're no slouch either (they've raised at least 100M).

Google tried to kill Facebook this way, and failed.
What other solution do they have? Social media decimated their business model. Remember all the layoffs over the last decade?
Tell me more about your perspective.
I meant externally. But in a slow and strategic manner. Just so the people involved may avoid taking the hit like many whistle blower do.
Are there any comparable crises in history that mankind eventually wriggled its way out of against scientific consensus? Is history not littered with once-valid and absolutist scientific conclusions that were never borne out?
Transparency and Consent Framework (now v2): https://iabeurope.eu/policy/introducing-for-public-comment-t...

Privolta (our startup for 1st-party privacy-safe ads): https://www.privolta.com/

There are many others. Regulation always creates opportunity.
It is called snitching. Do not report people when you are not clear what the crime is and who the victim is. It wastes taxpayer money on needless investigations.
If it's true that there are more male software engineers, then why is it wrong for the AI to "learn" that?

If the AI did start classifying masculine features biased towards software engineers, then the AI has learnt the above fact, and thus can be used to make predictions.

The moral standpoint that there shouldn't be more male software engineers than female engineers is a personal and subjective ideal, and if you lament bias, then why isn't this kind of bias given the same treatment?
The entire world; you do make a good point here.
So should we start taxing Chinese products more, like Trump has started doing, and some people in the EU have been suggesting for a long time, then?
This would at least be coherent. Yet the group of people warning the most about global warming tend to also be people who are still promoting free trade and globalization (a good example is French President Macron, who seems to holds both beliefs simultaneously).
> And the information revealed that people in crisis regularly turn their pets over to an animal shelter.

I don't know why I assumed they were visiting the animals at the shelter to try to find comfort when I read the headline. The idea of planning to surrender your beloved pet before committing suicide is heartbreaking.
That just sounds like a huge change that will take a long time and a lot of money to do.
It logically correct to do that when it's your neighborhood and you're driving home.

But note the implicit bias in your own comment: you assume yourself and all the readers of the comment are not people who live in bad neighborhoods.
Humans Carry More Bacterial Cells than Human Ones

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-...

FYI: WAG stands for Wild Ass Guess. They usually don't involve citations.
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Back in Algebra 1 my teacher had a policy that you were allowed to use any program that you wrote yourself. More teachers should do that, though it'd get challenging to enforce if it weren't just the one or two nerdy kids taking you up on it.
I literally don't understand why somebody would prefer a cop over a camera on every street corner of the US.

And just to be double clear, I understand the downsides of having everything on video; in this hypothetical situation, it's my opinion that having a cop on every street corner of the US is the greater evil, while having a camera in their place is a lesser evil. Both evils, both absurd hypothetical scenarios. Both fun to think about because I like dystopian societies.
The USA, with 40,000 deaths every single year. More than gun deaths.
Facebook agrees to acquire brain-computing startup CTRL-labs
Bizarre article. Are people really so beholden to their phones? It’s as if it’s a revelation to him. Maybe it’s my age but it’s obvious that wondering around and interacting with your environment will lead to a richer experience.
I've been using virtualenv + virtualenvwrapper for years. I hear complaints but I'm used to it now and it's pretty nice. Usually create a new environment for each project and pip install my packages into it.
> Now the math department? They were a different story. No calculators. Period. Ever. Made higher-level calculus... interesting.

There is no reason for any math course at any level to ever need a calculator, period.

The point of math courses is learning to think, not learning to avoid fat-fingering tiny buttons or learning the specific crappy interface of some anachronistic antique machine.

Without an electronic calculator students can’t be expected to do as much mindless number crunching, so instead the problems can be made much more interesting, unique, and conceptually challenging.

Frankly the same goes for science courses. If people need to process data resulting from physical experiments they should use a machine with a full-sized keyboard and a real programming language. If you want something portable a slide rule is entirely sufficient for anything that might come up in high school or intro undergrad level science courses. The students might even learn something about significant figures.

I could plausibly believe that upper-division engineering courses benefit from handheld calculators – I have no experience with those – but foisting $100 calculators on every high school student is a tremendous scam.
I really enjoy seeing comments on here that fit the 3rd kind.

"Thing is ridiculous, that could never work because of reasons A, B and C."

"What are you talking about, here is project that does thing, it functions perfectly."

Nothing like reality proving someones baseless naysaying wrong immediately.
> Futzing with your GPS app while driving is just as dangerous as texting.

Just as dangerous yes, but using a standalone GPS or dashboard touchscreen is legal in Australia which makes this rule strange.

I talk on a handheld CB radio regularly in the car and that's perfectly legal too.
Pwn20wnd's A12/A12X iOS 12.0-12.1.2 jailbreak
https://github.com/pwn20wndstuff/Undecimus/releases

Pre-Release is out in the wild now. I have not tested this version personally however I've had great results with an A11 device on a previous release (v3.6.3).