skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strange that they don't improve this on redshift
Eh, that's one way to interpret that statements. I think most algorithms that you would come across usually (sorting / searching / efficient storage), and a large superset of what could be used in a regular engineering job can be learnt in a few months. In fact, most CS undergrads take 2-3 courses on algorithms in their education, which is a few months.

TAOCP and books like that are meant to be a compendium or reference. It would be like someone claiming "I can learn enough JS to be productive at work in a year", and then someone refuting that by showing them some obscure feature of the language no one uses and knows of.
Probably. I had that hunch too.. seems to be the shortest and cleanest path the get namespaces. Maybe a subset of that library without allocating system resources like a vm.
That may be true, but the number of people no longer smoking tobacco is way up, starting about when both nicotine salt and more compelling flavors hit the scene.

In general, big tobacco differentiates between less and quit. The quit numbers stand right out. For example, regular smoker gets theirs consistently at store X. Sometimes store X sells to several regular smokers. Gets price break Y to encourage and solidify that behavior.

Assuming pack a day numbers, the difference between doing less and people quitting altogether tends to stand out over a bit of time. It's quantized.

As to why?

I am not convinced flavors had quite the impact nicotine salt did. It's significant though. Some people need something very different from tobacco, and that's where flavors seem to matter. Both seem to need that "hit" where intake of nicotine is competitive with tobacco.

Juul actually adds an acid that takes habit forming to a level competitive with tobacco, and that's combined with nicotine salt, which is absorbed more readily than freebase nicotine is.

Just nicotine salt, whatever flavor, is almost as potent as what Juul sells. Many cannot tell the difference, or just don't care as it's good enough for them.

Typical move is to do both, and the negative experiences from tobacco add up pretty quick. Smell, having to manage flames, ashes, etc...

The positives from vaping add up too. Minor league smell, if any, no management of flames, ashes. But, there is charging and the fiddling with various bits.

Within a few days, depending on how impacted the smoker is, breathing differences show up, and that seals the deal for impacted smokers. Otherwise, it's just positives outweighing negatives.

Cost is a fraction of tobacco, unless one is using Juul at retail. That can be par. Does not have to be.

People using juice and their vapor delivery device of choice are going to pay much less.
Police stopped patrolling in New York and focused on only serious crime recently....Crime dropped.

Not a complete end of enforcement but it shows broken window policing might be stupidity on steroids.
Expectation: People know what they do. Reality: They have no clue.
Small Deep Neural Networks – Their Advantages, and Their Design
I lived with depression for decades until my Asperger's diagnosis explained it
Went ahead and filed it for you: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499593#c408
It's called "get another job and leave that org"
It may happen, certainly will happen eventually, but every generation for the last 60 years has said the same (eg Space 1999, 2001 Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, etc) and as we inch ever closer we realise we are even further away than we first estimated. I guess it’s a bit like the Dunning-Kruger effect.

That all said, the advent of the the web and “smart” devices have changed the world more significantly and in a shorter space of time than any other technological leap in human history. It’s been exciting working through that revolution.
Alright, I'm out of here. Just for the record, though: only one of us offered any evidence to support their position. And it wasn't you.
I was surprised too. But then somebody gifted an Echo Show 5 to my parents and they have become an ardent users of it - great sound quality, no need to take out an app and fiddle with it to listen to music and manage BT connection with a speaker, just tell it what to play and it will do that.

What is amazing is how Amazon made an ecosystem around it to hook people to it - my parents were given a free years worth of amazon prime along with their broadband connection but they did not use it much. Then somebody gifted them a firestick and suddenly the prime subscription made sense because of prime videos. Now, they have an echo show 5 which is justifying the prime subscription even more because of prime music.
This is the result of a several decades worth of normalising the process of clicking through unread shrink-wrap agreements: confusion about the nature of copyright, which is the author’s exclusive right to ‘monetise’ their work. Creators assign this right to YouTube in exchange for the hosting service. If YouTube dominates the market such that no copyright holder can afford to reject their terms, that problem is not going to be solved by granting creators new rights which will also be assigned to YouTube under revised terms and conditions.
This guy must have had a deathwish, no sane person would act this way. This guy needed mental health services, not fire.

Try protesting for the rights of pedofiles in a park full of children and their parents, you'll get your ass kicked or worse. Why would a supporter of a murdering authoritarian regime expect different treatment in the middle of a heated pro-democracy protest?
Similar idea to Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
Depends on whether one's priorities lie in being comfortable or maximizing the chance of surviving as a species.
For the last transit of Venus I rigged up a pair of binoculars to project one sight onto some posterboard a few feet away for the entire duration. It was great, Venus was about the size of a dime on the image.

That was with a crappy old pair of binoculars I didn’t care about one way or another. Now I have a nice pair, do I risk damaging them by doing this?
I don’t really see this; All of the currently popular machine learning frameworks either support GPU or are oriented around GPU based execution. For most developers working on AI it is still the defacto standard.
> The thing is, when someone else benefits from you eating sugar, journalistic pieces that put try to put people on the wrong foot (like these) will come out.

This is conspiratorial thinking. It's not healthy to shut off every opinion different from yours as an attempt to deception.

> So why not go for your own experience?

As I said, individual experiences are difficult to trust. Anyway, for what it's worth, I did cut drastically my sugar intake, for months. I found no benefits.
Thanks, I feel both valued and safe now.

The site says:

"Our European visitors are important to us.

This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."
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The MAX is actually v4 after the original (-100/200), classic (-300/400/500) and NG (-600/700/800/900).
Another important thing to mention about bedrock redstone is that it is non-deterministic while Java's redstone for all its bugs is 100% reliable.
bunkers with ants
We Lose 11 Years on Smart Devices: The Cost of Screen Time
Stopped reading this article at the second popover. Why are so many web authors so willing to compromise their writing with this nonsense?
I don't know if there's a place less friendly than #perl on freenode

I'm pretty sure 90% of the questions I ever asked there were answered with "CPAN is a thing" or "Why would you even want to do that?". Rarely would anyone answer my actual question.
In moderation that's all fine and good. But when taken to excess, like anything else taken to excess, it can do a lot of harm.
You do not assign YouTube your copyright except for premium videos. You grant a nonexclusive licence.
I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that Canada has less selective immigration. The Canadian system is merit based and has a relatively low rate of illegal immigration. The US has 50 million hispanic Americans (about 13 million more people than the entirety of Canada). Almost all of their ancestors were not in this country 70 years ago. And many of their ancestors came to this country illegally and, thus, faced no sort of selective filter whatsoever.
> I still don't find voice activation to be very good in the cases I've used it.

I saw someone post on twitter that they'd asked alexa to tell them what Hermione’s wand is made out of?

Alexa: “A review from an Amazon customer says Hellman’s mayonnaise is made out of plastic.

Was that helpful?”

Instead of looking for the best answer to the question (that was misheard anyway), amazon would rather default to their reviews as a source of truth.
That was a fascinating read, thank you.
(How) does this affect graphics performance? And how does the container communicate with the graphics engine? Just an X11 socket linked into the container?
I think.. both. Distributed computing (Hadoop) was why a lot of data got collected and made available(ish).

GPU's are the engines that made CNN's (in particular) tractable, and opened up a bunch of applications for many companies, and opened up a reasonable route to results for a generation of researchers.
They are submitting an IND, which is great but they still have Phase 1, 2 and 3 to go. It's also a cell therapy so if it works, it's likely to be quite expensive to receive.

That said, if it works, it's a wonderful breakthrough that will hopefully spur others.
Dehumanize social interactions through a Tinder bot
On the other side of this tracking, there are also URL parameters like fbclid, gclid, etc., that can tell the opened site where you came from and which post/content piece on that platform you came from. Additional extensions to remove these parameters are also necessary.
A large part if not the majority of indie games (both on and outside of Steam) are based on Unity.
> The best thing about facts is I have no need to convince people of anything. Facts are true whether we believe in them or not, and someday reality will come along to inform us of those facts rather painfully if we choose to ignore them.

You might be willing to put up with the consequences of other people being mistaken, but most people aren't.

Take climate change - is your attitude "well, the tides will rise and swallow the cities and so on, but there's no point trying to convince people to minimise the damage, because at least I'll be proven right in the end..."?

Pragmatically speaking, it is often incredibly important to be able to convince other people of the truth, if you want to be able to cooperate with them. That really seems so obvious as to go without saying.
I got a free Google home mini from Spotify. It's fairly convenient for music and weather checking when I don't want to grab my phone. And it's great for when I don't remember where I _put_ my phone.
In some ways, this might turn in to a good thing.

Don't get me wrong, it's a terrible thing for all of the people involved.

But, I'm going to put on my 'perennial optimist' hat -- a hat which I very rarely wear, mind you -- and try to find the potential for a good end to this story.

See, outside of medicine, you generally can't make people pay for stuff unless they agreed to do so -- and almost always, you have to document the cost up front.

Have you ever been to the auto mechanic? You know how they give you paperwork up front with estimated prices? Turns out that they have to do that -- and get your consent for any price increase before they do any extra work if they want to be guaranteed that they'll be able to make you pay.

Turns out, the law works that way for just about everything except healthcare -- where, of course, you can get bills after-the-fact from doctors that you have no business relationship with whatsoever, that you've never met, and had no way of knowing about.

So, maybe in the long run, courts will start to apply the same common doctrines that cover every other kind of commercial transaction to some of the more egregious of these suits (at which point that'll become the precedent, and the practice of making up prices after-the-fact based on what they think they can extort out of you will have to end.
Voters don't, but politicians have incentive to listen to voters, rather than being totally in it for themselves.
In other words, the desire to be re-elected causes politicians to listen to the people, rather than do whatever they want. At least, that is the theory.
Yes, the kitchen and the car are the places I have found Alexa and Siri (respectively) useful. Amazon had the Echo Dot on offer for £9 GBP last week, and I’ve been surprised how much more often Alexa does the right thing than Siri does (YMMV).
I parsed that as two instructions:

Do not use a typedef to hide a pointer
Do not use a typedef to avoid writing “struct”

Nothing to do with opaque pointers directly.

And considering it's titled "Principles for C programming", it would seem intended as some sort of ruleset.
> How the Canadian telcos haven't been prosecuted for price-fixing is beyond me.

Because they - and the Canadian banks and a whole bunch of other entities - are monopolists with a wink. Their competitors only exist for them to be able to claim they are not a monopoly.

There is also the LCBO, which is an outright state operated monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor_Control_Board_of_Ontari...

Canadians pay way too much for many services and goods compared to those South of the border because of these quasi monopolies and the associated lack of competition.
Also I bet they deny check out until late's are retured, maybe with some buffer for lost or cant return it yet but will. I dont see it mentioned in the article.

Smart move imho. Bravo CPL.

I bet the same result happens elsewhere independent of assumptions about desire to pay.
Is VistA usable by sole practitioners?
The best way to protect against tyranny is an armed population
Do you have a personal contact? You seem to also be interested in similar things as me. By the way if you are ok with a bit of custom code you can do a lot of what airflow/prefect do with dask.delayed
Generally you are blocked from renting more books if you do not pay full amount of lost or not returned book after some point. My library allows 10 books at a time so if I don’t return due books then they put my account on hold.
Loading Gravitational Wave Data in Python
Whose law was it again that if the headline asks a yes/no question, the answer is always 'no'?
Yeh I guess that is why it was easy for them to experiment with it.
>Self-checkout increases shrinkage

If this is true, and I'm not sure it is, I bet the money they lose to theft is dwarfed by the amount they save by laying off most of their checkers.
We will probably start to see this a lot in the video game consoles field. On the hardware front, looking at the early specs of the PS5 for instance show them emphasis faster storage access speed more so than added CPU/GPU/RAM.

Consoles were always more likely to see speed optimizations, but this had slid aside a bit in the last two decades.
Someone's promised the Sauds a return on their Uber investment
It’s a nudge that people will react differently to. Someone who is close to making a decision about a company may because of slight changes in the communication they’ve received. Design elements are part of that communication.
>cloud computing will continue to see decreases in costs

cloud computing costs much more than on prem; it's available on demand, which is why it's attractive to some companies. For everyone else it's an outsourcing play that unlocks capex for revenue generation.

>Quantum computers might play a role in increasing computational power in the next decade.

Nope. No chance. Best case is that QC will provide improved molecular simulations in 10-20 years. But that will be a very specialised result.

>Right now a lot of AI research is low hanging fruit recently made available with advances in CPU and GPU. After the advances dry up maybe more fundamental research will produce much better results with our current technology.

100%, but the key word is maybe. One problem I anticipate is that the current skill set of grad students and the current management mind set in academia and commercial research is not well fitted to the kind of fundamental research that includes maybe and risk. I think that a more likely turn is that there will be a focus on how to better exploit the tech for data science and ML that we have. Currently we're pretty hit and miss and also the results are rather unpredictable and brittle. When did you last find an ML project on Github with unit tests?
We can't even repair shit on the ISS with robots. I don't rate our chances to do arbitrary repair work.
Truth is, Windows is a mess when installing stuff also. Beside installation folder and registry, there is also user's AppData folder, \ProgramData in system drive, and then installers tend to leave some MSIs in \Windows\Installer, all the libraries in System32 and sometimes, they also place stuff in Program Files\Common files.

The best at isolation has historically been macis, and then again you have plenty of packages installing to /Library, kernel extensions, uninstallers being placed in Applications/Utilities, MS updater being placed in /System and so on
One of the main virtues of HTML/CSS is separation of style and content. This is useful when you want to style your content for both print and the screen.

Currently, this requires you to use something like pandoc to generate LaTeX and HTML from the same source document, then use two different languages for styling. I don't want to do that. I want to have a single HTML file with one stylesheet that applies a few extra rules to print nicely. I can sort of do this now, but there are lots of features missing that make it impractical for many use-cases. For example, it's currently impossible to make a footnote always display at the bottom of a print page in CSS alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Most posters are already quite familiar with it, so comments which point to it with no further context or substance tend to get downvoted.
>Why? Because it is going to demand engineers who can write fast code over engineers who write code fast.

Or just making slower things more orthogonally parallelized and throwing more hardware units at the problem (as opposed to more powerful hardware or faster code).

Most code by engineers "who write code fast" is not in performance critical domains...
Yes. You risk overheating the adhesive that bonds the glass components internally, unless you use a solar filter on the front (sun end) of one tube of the binoculars, and complelely cap the other tube with its lens cap.

My advice is to skip the binoculars. Instead use a simple magnifying glass like you can buy at an office supply store -- a round one, not a square one -- and a piece of poster board just like you did last time. It will work fine. The image will be upside down but who cares?

If you can't get a magnifying glass, use a second piece of poster board and put a whole in the middle with a pin, or tack. The image on the other poster board will be very dim but almost as good.
> Linear improvements will get us there in the end.

No, they won't. That's the point. To quote directly from the article:

we’re talking about exponential rates of growth here, linear expense adjustments won’t move the needle.
The reasoning also necessarily falls back on experience. Personal experience is all we have. You’re admitting that your estimation is subjective. Why are you so worried about others eating animals, then? Because a lot of other people now are too?
You're right his definition is a bit idiosyncratic but it's still very much relatable to a modern definition of Nationalism.

> Orwell, had he lived today, would be unironically branded as a nazi.

Ahh what? By who, some nobody on Twitter? Why are you even bringing this up?
This is neat, but ...

> JSON Video – the second example device on how to fetch web data in JSON format: uses #ableton tagged looped videos from the online video sharing service “Vine”.

How old is this? Vine was pretty much shuttered a few years ago, I'd be surprised if there was a way to add new videos or if you could rely on being able to access old ones
They do more high performance graphics than the large majority of GNU/Linux "gamming" environments.

Apple is not killing anything, anyone that has a name on the game industry already supports Metal, because professional game studios care about performance and productive tooling not about API religion wars.

Game consoles, outsolding any Linux based platform, also don't support Vulkan, so they are also killing gamming?

Yes, Switch does Vulkan, but their main 3D API is NVN and most of their titles are being done in Unity/Unreal, with Unity already having over 50% of Switch titles.
Power Shift: battery-swapping our way across China
Ran a few ad pixel servers. CPU was fine for that. Diurnal cycle, weekly cycle, handled holidays, handled sudden spikes. Pretty trivial ASG on AWS globally. 2 million rps.
Ableton continues to do fantastic things and produce excellent software that genuinely makes me WANT to use it. Connection Kit is just another wonderful tool to help people be more creative with the platform.
I was a musician before becoming a software developer. Max/MSP was my gateway into the general field of programming and I still rely on the intuition I built back then when forming mental models about problem solving. Object-orientation, functional concepts, declarative programming – it’s all in there in a very tangible way. It’s just a joy to work with!
So, seeing how Max just keeps maturing and becoming more and more accessible makes me very happy!
And having it integrate so well with Ableton and the outside world is really a major leap forward compared to back then (2004, pre-Ableton acqusition). We spent oceans of time getting sensors, midi and OSC working together reliably! Now it’s a non-issue.
This video, presumably just before the incident, shows the man chasing after protestors who had been smashing up a train station.

https://twitter.com/AquaLuna_HK/status/1193786585507975169
In the first point, I agree. What has changed is who's on the internet. The average person may be snooped on, but they're not very regulated. What's regulated are companies, especially large multinational corporations.

Essentially, when we say "regulate" today, that's kind of what we mean: regulating bodies that that make rules for large corporations. Increasingly regulated and a increasingly corporate came in tandem.

On your second point... I think it's kind of moot. Sure, the international "old internet" still exists. You can take part in it like you did in 1996. It's just dwarfed by the new internet.

I'd argue that's a technicality, the important parts of that internet's "freedoms" are pointless when it's a vestigial artifact.
From my point of view, this isn't programming.
This is high level language tricks.
It would be much more fun doing it in Assembly language, without any use of any kind of library, expect for input and output. This way student would have learnt so much more, about how integer are manipulated into cpu (just bits in base 2) doing smart math conversion to represent it in base 10. And why not generalise the problem to also compute the size in base 8, or any base N.

I hate those programming class just trying to teach python surface use, while in a programming class you have time to go deeper and learn about how python works, cause basically python use all str to binary and loop for doing all the work requested by the teacher, without student even being aware of how it does it !
I'm already happy not half the page is ads on this one, but yes you get ripped right out of reading and it instantly comes off as a cheap site.