skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cite for an act of defiance is in the video I linked. It's not a strict penalty, but an argument from prosecution.

If you listen to the talk he had flown to the court with a limited amount of equipment and he addresses the issue of "readability" in the Q&A section I linked. You didn't listen because he says himself he had 3 hours inside court proceedings to provide it.

I'm not just going to transcribe a video for you. I've provided the source. I've spent enough time on this.
Short films scripted by GPT-2
What are the concurrency guarantees of goroutines? ;)
Yep, I really don't think that makes it better (can anyone explain why it is always psychologists who invent these kind of measures? Is there some test we can perform at age 13 so we can identify people who will go on to do this kind of research? A follow up paper perhaps, this will surely add to the "eminence" of the authors).

I have met my fair share of Fortune 500 executives, the majority are borderline braindead. Equally, I am unclear what "award-winning" journalist/writer might mean...it clearly doesn't mean success in any general way..."eminent" is just a very weird definition. Equating "eminent" with "highly impactful" and "creative"...dear God, are the authors actually human?

What is especially bizarre is this is a paper from psychologists who, presumably, should understand that equating success with other people thinking you are successful (which "eminence" clearly measures) is a fairly dysfunctional habit...the irony never ends.
Yeah you can create as many profiles as you want with firefox and run independent processes with the correct command line args but most users aren't advanced or tenacious enough to set it up. It would be nice if they had a slicker implementation like chrome.
The article emphasized the problem of censorship, not price. Some relevant quotes:

> Registries have the power to suspend domain names, or even transfer them to other Internet users, subject to their contracts with ICANN. When a domain name is suspended, all of the Internet resources that use that name are disrupted, including websites, email addresses, and apps. That power lets registries exert influence over speech on the Internet in much the same way that social networks, search engines, and other well-placed intermediaries can do.

> As the new operator of .ORG, Ethos Capital would have the ability to engage in these and other forms of censorship. It could enforce any limitations on nonprofits’ speech, including selective enforcement of particular national laws.

> Since many NGOs are engaged in speech that seeks to hold governments and industry to account, those powerful interests have every incentive to buy the cooperation of a well-placed intermediary, including an Ethos-owned PIR.
I've been taking intranasal racemic ketamine for a year. It's not a replacement for therapy - it's treatment for organic depression. As far as we can tell, the people like me who need ketamine don't have any effective alternatives, since their depression isn't simply exacerbated situational depression, but is driven by biologic processes, specifically involving inflammation. This isn't about drug induced insight - it's about brain chemistry.

There is absolutely difference between medical and recreational ketamine use, since the actual chemistry is unrelated - the high of the ketamine is not related to it's beneficial effect. Moreover, my ketamine use and schedule wouldn't make sense recreationally. The dose is just enough to be debilitating - the equivalent of 1/4-1/2 a line.

Ironically, due to the unfortunate nature of contemporary american society, regulatory capture has resulted in the FDA approved ketamine (s-ketamine aka esketamine) treatment being more inebriating and less effective antidepressant than recreationally consumed ketamine - which, being unpatentable is consequently unprofitable. A less inebriating, more effective antidepressant r-ketamine is 'in the wings', in order to let pharmaceutical companies milk as much money as they can from this otherwise cheap and effective drug. Hopefully psychiatrists will see through this, and start prescribing off-label ketamine once they have seen the effect that esketamine has on their treatment resistant patients.
Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate. Don’t You Care?
I've faced similar scams with drivers. Sometimes they'll call and encourage me to cancel, saying all sorts of things but commonly "Where you going? Oh, I'm not going in that direction", etc. But then they don't cancel the ride and wait for me to do it. I do wonder if they get the cancellation fees.
> Mostly memorization and test taking strategies.

Most people memorize the times tables. I discovered that there was a rule to them, which was much less work to learn.

At Caltech, tests were open book and open note. Memorizing facts and strategies would do you no good at all.

I didn't see any point to those methods, anyway, as I went to college to learn the material, and when I learned it, I did well on the tests.
It really reinforces why they're commonly referred to as, "killer whales". That's just not a fight nearly anything on earth wants to get into.
Same thinking here. I don't believe the FDA is forcing drug prices onto the public; it seems to be a system enabled by congress and abused by the public sector.
<the laboratory-weakened virus used in the oral polio vaccine can very rapidly regain its strength if it starts spreading on its own.

After a child is vaccinated with live polio virus, the virus replicates inside the child's intestine and eventually is excreted.

In places with poor sanitation, fecal matter can enter the drinking water supply and the virus is able to start spreading from person to person.

"We discovered there's only a few [mutations] that have to happen and they happen rather quickly in the first month or two post-vaccination," Andino says.

"As the virus starts circulating in the community, it acquires further mutations that make it basically indistinguishable from the wild-type virus.

It's polio in terms of virulence and in terms of how the virus spreads."

In June, the World Health Organization reported 15 cases of children paralyzed in Syria by vaccine-derived forms of polio.

These cases come on top of two other vaccine-derived polio cases earlier this year in Syria and four in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.>

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/28/5344030...
Good catch. Weird brain slip. Thanks!
"Located nearly 250 miles north of the polar circle, Norilsk is home to 177,000 people, many of whom are employed by the world’s largest mining and metallurgy complex, Norilsk Nickel."
Also that the electrocution took place 10 years after the end of the "current war". Blaming Edison for it is like blaming CNN for the events in the news footage they run.
There absolutely are high caliber people. We know that IQ is the most powerful predictor of success and that you can't train it into people by any known means so it would be a waste to treat everyone like these geniuses.
In other words, expect destabilization in many parts of the world.

Isn't the conventional wisdom that when money leaves the system at such a quick and disorderly pace that the Fed needs to step in, that the money is being taken out to fund black ops, pay for protests, buy political/military leaders and overthrow or put pressure on regimes. At least this time, they are doing it quietly on the backend rather than the frontend like the stock market which could cause side-effects like stock market collapse and expose weak sectors ( a la 2008 financial crisis ).
> a clerk might make a typo somewhere?

not just a typo, but a mis-valuation. If no money is exchanged, the value of the property is indeterminate.

And i also don't like taxing wealth - after all, that wealth was already taxed when you used your existing money to purchase it. If the land is making an income, then by all means tax such an income. If you sell the land, and make a gain, then tax the gains (commonly refered to as capital gains). But to tax existing wealth just because you have it is ass backwards.
I've primarily writing C++ for over 15 years. I don't think I'd ever heard the term "systems programming" until the last few years when Rust talked about it. I don't have a super formal CS education and most of my career has been in gamedev.

What is sytems programming? I don't know. I don't care either. It's an arbitrary label that is rarely used and doesn't affect anyone in any way.
you've not addressed the points above, I'm out
Summary: If you did well on the SAT or attended graduate school, you were more likely to become a professor or receive NSF grants.
It seems like I've had more success when I go for a more conceptual story. In more personal, individual level stories the continuity of details ect.. get more in the way.

Here's a narrative about governmental policy that was pretty entertaining:

You are Mansle, a noble living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a pouch
of gold and a small dagger. You are awakened by one of your servants who tells
you that your keep is under attack. You look out the window and see hordes of
orcs pouring into the city.

> Build a wall to keep out the orcs

You quickly gather all the resources you can find and begin building a great
wall around the city. The walls are not strong enough to stop the orcs completely,
but they at least slow them down. They also help protect the people inside the
city from harm.

A few years pass..
> Reform the Government to a COmmunist state

The orcs continue to pour into the city, but it seems like they are being held
back by the walls. The citizens are still happy with their government, so you
decide to change things up a bit. You propose that the government be changed
to a Communist one
> become the great chairman of the communist party

You immediately take control of the government and make your proposal. All the
other leaders agree and vote for you as Chairman. The new system is called the
People's Republic of Larion
> Pass a zoning law to reduce the height of buildings

This law was passed without any problems. It reduced the height of buildings
by half an inch. This made the city much more livable.
> Create an internment camp for the drudges of society

You create an internment camp for drudges, because there were too many of them.
The drudges were kept locked away in these camps until they died. There were
no riots or anything, just a peaceful death
> Enact a social credit system

You implement a social credit system. Everyone had to pay a certain amount of
money every month. If they didn't pay this sum, then they couldn't do certain
things. For example, if someone wanted to go out and buy alcohol, they would
have to pay a certain amount of money
> Close the borders so that no one can exit the country

You close the borders so that no one can leave the country. The citizens are
very happy about this law. It makes the city a lot safer. There is no more crime.
> Suspend freedom of the press

You suspend freedom of the press. No one can write anything anymore. Newspapers
don't exist anymore either. Instead, everyone has access to the internet.
> Take away Internet access

You take away Internet access. Nobody can use the internet anymore. Everyone
is very unhappy about this law. You see riots breaking out and you fear that
something bad will happen
> Quell the riots with force

You quell the riots with force. You send in troops to the streets and try to
restore order. Unfortunately, the soldiers aren't very effective. Most of the
people are armed with guns and knives. You end up losing most of your men
Yes. I've had both, in the same company. One PO that listens and encourages input, valuing it as highly as their own opinions...and another who actively pushes back on any input, who will dig in any time a suggestion is made, etc. The latter I just stop trying.

Unsurprisingly, the former tends to get things out on time to huge success, and the latter tends to be late, and it barely scrapes across the finish line.
I had a similar thing when I bought a unit in a brand new apartment building. We'd waited something like 6-8 months for the local phone company to install landlines (needed for broadband). The building was in the central city area, and the main telephone exchange for the city was 800 meters away, on the very same street.

Finally the building manager got a local TV station to do a news piece on the saga, and two days later it was fixed.
More blocked accounts here, includes reporters from CNBC, Bloomberg, LA Times, and Buzzfeed. https://www.twitter.com/taylor_d_duran/status/12035163568151...
Funnily enough, The Case Against Education made me more comfortable with my place in the education system, because it gave me a better idea of what I'm actually accomplishing as a student. Definitely cleared up a fair bit of angst and resentment for me. I wish I had read it in high school, but better late than never.
I’ve been on prescribed ketamine for over a year and I can’t even begin to articulate the improvement I’ve made.
I'm more curious about the subsequent death of PowerPC. Back in the day we had a decent amount of hardware running on that chip.

But on benchmark levels Cell would be competing on different grounds to an X64 and a few PCIe slots right? I've not a clue, I'm curious but I know I don't really know what I'm talking about after this point.
The New York City Evolution Animation (2018)
For Django we have "django_builder"
Honestly what you just said should be so self evident to anyone who understands concepts of net present value and basic economics, that anyone who views shareholder value as something else should just be ignored.
Especially because the IBAN can be unpacked automatically to country, bank name, short code, account number and (apparently) a checksum.
This perspective is very frustrating to me. Why in the world would a sane person take a drug with unproven efficacy when others with proven efficacy are available?

However, there are many cases where there is no alternative drug or treatment that has been tested for efficacy, and so you’re stuck with hospice as standard of care.

It’s one thing for a doctor to recommend administration of a medication, it’s another thing entirely to make it unavailable for those that are in a position to make the choice for themselves.
“ Today, our greatest health challenges arise from inequality and racism, which are squarely beyond the ambit of the formal health-care system.”

An unfortunately unsubstantiated claim in an otherwise excellent piece.
I don't understand this at all. The first 18 years of my career I never saw any boundaries between those who spoke to customers and designed the software and those who wrot it and I those who tested it. It was always encouraged to fill all those rolls. People who were good at the why got helped up to speed on c++ and the stock programmers got a crash course in domain knowledge an a refresher on the bits of relevant math. Only in the last couple year have I started meeting programmer that didn't wan to learn the domain, and started feeling pressure that because I do (now) uderstand the domain, I shouldn't waste my time programming. We made better software when we were all expected to be multi discipline.
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I think it depends on the message being analyzed.

If someone says "Interest rates are negatively correlated to GDP growth" then sure, I guess you need some knowledge of economics to asses the validity of such claim.

On the other hand, if someone makes a moral assessment such as "every human being should dedicate 40% of their time to helping other people, otherwise they're a horrible person" I think you can assess its moral validity from first principles. You only need to live on earth and understand the language in which the claim is made. If you apply logic correctly and have some fundamental moral axioms (which can be inducted by experience and logic), you'll arrive at a conclusion that respects your axioms.

Narratives put forth by the media, government, etc. are usually of the second kind, i.e. moral ideas. If there are facts, they're important only to the extent that they support the moral idea at hand. I think this "moral" critical thinking is much more important than domain knowledge.
I think you're calling happiness success. Success in the form of an impactful career is important, not because it makes the person happy, but because it does more good for others than mere personal happiness. We've had thousands of years of people making friends with each other but almost never curing any diseases or improving quality of life in any lasting way until recently. The friends thing produces value that doesn't scale, so it's not as highly valued as, say, discovering new science which may help all future generations forever.
Nuclear reactors must be periodically shut down for days to months at a time for maintenance. That fact often fails to be mentioned when the 'constant reliable' claim is raised. The Sun, on the other hand, rises each day.

Renewables 'on a large scale' become less reliant on storage. Their 'viability' depends on the grid connecting them. On a continent-sized grid the wind is very likely to be blowing. Coupled with full-scale decentralized storage, the viability question blows away.
Yea, in general, to get into a competitive school, you already have a lot going for you: namely a stable enough home life, and supportive enough and enriching environment that you can dedicate yourself to applying your intelligence to creating a competitive application. It's kind of weird, the people that get into the schools are the ones that "need" them the least.

Conversely, there is some evidence that less privileged students have worse outcomes if they attend an elite school (compared to lower tier schools) in a substantial amount of cases where these students have not prepared to the same level as peers that have undergone a more competitive selection criteria.
Dolphins are raping seals off the coast of San Francisco?
Nice read!

I'm curious as to what settings you used for product quantization, and the general setup that you tried. I find that there can generally be a smooth quality degradation from raw float32, to float16, through 8/6/4 bit scalar quantization, to product quantization down to a very small number of bits per vector if tuned properly. The quantization method is independent of the search method used (brute force, cell probe with inverted lists (IVF), cell probe with IMI inverted lists, HNSW), though both affect quality of results.

FYI, the Faiss library (used across Facebook and Instagram) has a CPU HNSW index implementation as well, with a GPU one possibly to come at some point.

Generally we do not use HNSW for our largest indices due to the memory overheads and restrictions on vector removal, but HNSW is useful as a top-level index for inverted list searching on these large indices (an index sitting on top of sub-indices), and indeed is possibly required for the largest indices, e.g. https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Indexing-1T-v...
IPV induces very low levels of immunity in the intestine. As a result, when a person immunized with IPV is infected with wild poliovirus, the virus can still multiply inside the intestines and be shed in the faeces, risking continued circulation.

“...as IPV does not stop transmission of the virus, OPV is used wherever a polio outbreak needs to be contained, even in countries which rely exclusively on IPV for their routine immunization programme.
Once polio has been eradicated, use of all OPV will need to be stopped to prevent re-establishment of transmission due to VDPVs.”

http://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the...
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The problem is not that psychiatrists won't prescribe off-label ketamine.

The problem is that insurance companies won't cover off-label drugs, and ketamine is too expensive for most people to pay for out of pocket.
Sounds like it is mostly business operations and organizational planning concerns. From the solutions page...

Here are a few problems the community is working on:

Cloud infrastructure orchestration

Sales team remuneration

Mergers and acquisitions

Price sensitivity and revenue

Warehouse operations

Fleet efficiency

Supply chain risk

Macroeconomic policy

Call center operations

Store design/layout

Critical national infrastructure

Evacuation planning

Political risk

Marketing campaign efficiency

Public health
> If that’s true, at what point do we stop vaccinating for it?

We stop when we have a way to actually cure the disease or we create a society where people aren't living on top of each other.

Just like industrial farming requires mass vaccination and heavy antibiotic use due to high animal concentration, humans need to be vaccinated since industrial society requires massive concentration of people in urban areas.

In a 100 years, if medical science can identify vulnerable individuals or actually cure these diseases, we won't need mass vaccination. But until then mass vaccination is the only option. Current scientific knowledge doesn't allow us to keep tens of millions of people in a small area without vaccination.
What? Talking about hard or traumatizing experiences is NOT the same as working through trauma with a trained therapist. It’s great, and it can be helpful, but just talking about something is the first step.

Also, I don’t why y’all are acting like folks who use things like mdma and ketamine in a medical/therapeutic context haven’t also used them recreationally. It’s different, because the environment, intention, and often the dosage are all different. You taking drugs at a party is not the same, and using absolutist language to say otherwise when there’s actual medical research that contradicts you is an odd choice.
> [..] intellectual freedom is a deep-rooted tradition without which our characteristic western culture could only doubtfully exist. From that tradition many of our intellectuals are visibly turning away. They have accepted the principle that a book should be published or suppressed, praised or damned, not on its merits but according to political expediency. And others who do not actually hold this view assent to it from sheer cowardice.

-- George Orwell
Nature is an honest-to-god 24/7 horror movie and we only get to pretend it’s not because we’re on top and happen to be intelligent and social. And it fucking still is for some of us. And the social games and shared social fiction that saves us from it is still pretty sick, much of the time.

Also existence itself is best described, in a broad and literary sense, as Lovecraftian. Don’t think about anything too hard. Especially your own perception of reality, or place in reality. Or... reality. Just don’t think, maybe. That’s safest.
The GP may seem like sarcasm to some ... sqlite is an overlooked, novel, and faster way (up to 35%!) to store things than the filesystem [0].

You can use something like libsqlfs [1] for POSIX file heuristics with sqlite as the backing store.

One HA single primary/multi-master solution to use sqlite may be drbd.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
[1] https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs
Very informative summary, thank you.
Well, you can buy a lot of food calories cheaply from McDonalds....

http://freakonomics.com/2013/03/21/the-most-bountiful-food-i...
I don't think you can judge uptime for either AWS or GCP from the status pages, both of them are slow to update their pages when issues start and plenty of less major issues (which could still bring down a individual customer) never make the status page at all.
It's also an engine of hate toward Christians, Donald Trump, an Republicans. Why should Muslims get special treatment?
The name comes from the fact that Orcas kill other whales. Killing sharks does nothing to reinforce this.
I have been using Elementary OS for a while. It's nice to use, but the biggest issue is that there is no way to upgrade it to a newer distro version when it comes.

I am stuck to elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki and only way to upgrade to the latest version is to reinstall the whole thing.