skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"YouTube’s late 2019 algorithm is not a radicalization pipeline, but in fact

- Removes almost all recommendations for conspiracy theorists, provocateurs and white Identitarians

- Benefits mainstream partisan channels such as Fox News and Last Week Tonight"

We all agree there are no "conspiracy theorists, provocateurs [or] white identitarians" on Fox News?
But not the lowest in 4 years. See graph.[1]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/goods-trade-balan...
i think simplicity is a good selling point, but the dependence on the power grid and charging utilities is an even bigger, negative point. i think it's underestimated how big of an issue charging will be.
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I would second the Coursera course(s), which is one of the best MOOCs I've ever taken (Algorithms 1 & 2 from Princeton).

Watch the videos, then read the relevant section of the text book, and don't miss the assignments which were fantastic ways to learn about the nuances of writing efficient algorithms and data structures.

If only every programming MOOC put that much effort into their autograders...
What does China have to do with American civil liberties?
Ghosn 'hid in musical instrument case' during escape from Japan
Corporate tax policy has no impact on the complexity of individual taxes. It's two completely independent sets of rules.

Your theory is wrong.
You're getting some incomplete answers to your question. Both a mutex and a spinlock is used to guarantee that a set of instructions are only invoked by a single thread of computation at once (with some variation; some mutex types permit multiple readers for example).

The difference is actually in the implementation of the mutual exclusion. A mutex is generally a system call which often starts as a spin lock before the system call is invoked (which is an assembly routine that changes the process privilege level and cedes control to the host operating system). A spinlock literally "spins" in a loop until an atomic flag or semaphore indicates that it can enter the protected region. When it does, it atomically sets the flag so that it has exclusive access. Because a spinlock does not interact directly with the OS scheduler, it needs a pause instruction or yield syscall at some point in its loop (or every few interations). Failure to do so introduces pathological scheduling problems as outlined in the article.

Spinlocks are sometimes used because it is believed that the odds of a collision are very low, and the cost of a syscall is perceived as being high to the developer. However, it's something that should only be used if you know what you're doing, and its behavior is subject to not only the OS, but also the hardware you run on.
See [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926111 please.
> Society is made up of human beings, most of whom are affected by emotions like guilt and empathy. Society works best when we are able to assume good faith from all participants. It breaks down when free riders (those unbound by empathy or mores) reach some critical threshold and then everyone loses trust in the system.

Human beings also self-organise and incorporate into groups, which may individually have their own distinct aims. I'm not sure what guilt and empathy have to do with organisations of people though.

"Good faith" is also pretty meaningless, as it doesn't really describe any specific behaviour or motivation. What happens when two individuals (or groups) come into conflict trying to optimise their own outcomes "in good faith"?

> They play one government against the other in order to minimize their taxes while maximizing their subsidies. They are the Spikes of society. We try to fight them with legislation but our laws are always one step behind.

I, as an individual, choose to use a low tax savings scheme to minimize my tax burden. I also make sure to claim every tax credit (or subsidy) that I'm entitled to. Am I a 'spike' in society?
They kind of do. I've been using 'Free File Fillable Forms' linked from the irs.gov free file website[0] for the past 10 years to do my taxes. These forms don't calculate _everything_ for you, but substantial portions are calculated.

One caveat is that you can't attach forms you've been sent from your bank or employer or whatever; you have to transcribe your W-2, any 1099s, 8949s, etc. This can be tedious. I don't know if e.g. TurboTax somehow makes this better.

I am sure that there are people for whom free file fillable forms is not enough, but IMO these people should probably be working with a CPA.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
My dudes, it is New Year's
Happy New Year's
Same here. The Intellij plug-in for D is getting there but has a long way to go. I tried it in IDEA and made some contributions to it but it is still a bit away from being usable for professional work and it's even farther from being usable in CLion IMO. The codebase is approachable though so anyone interested in it should start hacking away!
HumbleBrag?
Ooh those, i head a different definition of biomarker in mind
You don't need a government agency to test for THC potency. Businesses can and do already solve that problem. That doesn't seem to be what the parent commenter was getting at, regardless.

As an experienced grower I would trust myself and others I know who have expertise. I wouldn't need a lab test before consuming their product. As a frequent user, exact THC content is not really that relevant. Not nearly as much as knowing the strain and growing process, which as the grower, or the customer of a reputable grower or dispensary, I would know.

We're talking about a plant. The worst that can happen to you is a Peggy Noonan style freak out. Yet we're setting up a system where rent seekers will squat on grow and distribution licenses and the price will inevitably go up.
> That's why most governments that do self-declaration services make it so you can review what tax rules they based amounts off of.

Right, but since no regular person understands the rules, they can't really double-check. Especially since sometimes you can file stuff under different rules that produce different results, despite both being valid (I say this based on experience from another country, but I suspect the same is true in the US).
I've heard this often but never seen much justification for it besides things like buttons having less visual distinction from other content and the split control panel/settings app (which is pretty embarrassing). Was there anything else you had in mind?
I would get an electric car even if I didn’t care about climate change at all. I really don’t think that’s why most people bought Model S cars worth six figures...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oct2xKMGOno
Happy new year my dude
Are you saying after a certain earning threshold actors would have to drop from the union / guild? And if they hit a dry spell, they can come back? Maybe is it better to base it on wealth?

Don’t you think the paycheck to paycheck actors like to know even the super successful are part of their group? Maybe the strength that emanates from the group and what binds them is the profession and the craft, not the earnings? Is a highly paid actor, a better actor than someone who makes 1 cents less then the threshold?

Seems very arbitrary and not something that creates group cohesion.
We need a simpler tax code with fewer deductions before a simple tax form will make sense. Otherwise people will just get their simple tax form and pay TurboTax or someone else to squeeze every penny out of the deductions.
Yeah they added expiremental support for CLion in v1.17 but it still has a long way to go. https://github.com/intellij-dlanguage/intellij-dlanguage/blo...

I would love to see CLion support get better since we could use the debugger.
This is interesting. I've read documentation about dynamic linking and it describes this replacement process but I never truly understood the fact it was self-modifying code. Doesn't this imply the program's code is writable? I know that JIT compilers also emit code into writable and executable pages. Aren't there security implications?
Yeah, very few enforcements, indeed.

This was the first successful 512(f) verdict back in 2004, though it may still stand nearly alone, and did not yield enough in damages to affect megacorp behavior in the absence of a huge flurry of such lawsuits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebo....
These systems can be trained on more data than any doctor will see in their lifetime. This means that it can pick up on discrepancies between doctors and has room to outperform most doctors.

I'm working on a similar system but for dietaty feedback based on images and it's amazing to see the model outperform all of the dietitians because it's able to see how all of the coaches respond to similar items.
Show HN: Finding Stuff on Instagram with RedisAI
The Rust SDK for Tensorflow is worth a look.
35 Directors Pick Their Favorite Movies of 2019
Lenz v Universal was fought over this, and has opened the floodgates for these claims. Copyright holders cannot just blanket issue DMCA takedowns without evaluating the supposedly infringing content, including consideration of fair use.

While it’s not an easy case to win, it has teeth - unfortunately they are limited to ACTUAL damages, which does give companies incentive to file misrepresented claims as one cannot easily hire a contingent attorney without the possibility of a statutory windfall.
Yes, they pay you interest. That's from personal experience, when they returned money that I did in fact owe, because it was outside the statutory limits of how far back they can collect. It was literally a few dollars and a few days, and they paid interest.
We can build less accurate computers and analog computers. Neither of these even begin to approach what brains can do. A self-driving car's computer takes hundreds of watts to run, uses reduced precision and custom silicon wherever possible, and does not begin to approach the navigational ability of a mouse or bird whose brain consumes less than one watt of power.

The human brain didn't evolve to perform consciously explicit and exact calculations on huge numbers, but our navigational and positional awareness abilities do far more impressive things with far more data much faster than this. A monstrous amount of effective but subconscious number crunching is involved in being aware of where your body is in space using nothing more than vision and sensorimotor feedback, taking apart auditory input (including FFT-like transforms), etc.

I really think CS people suffer from Dunning-Kreuger when they hand wave around the impressiveness of biological systems. Study some actual biology and neuroscience. What biological systems do as a normal part of metabolism and cognition is as awesome and mind-blowing as the vast energies, times, and distances found in astronomy. Computers are specialized devices that perform impressive feats of specialized computation but they do not even approach what biological systems do in terms of total data throughput per unit energy, learning ability, or associative and versatile memory to name just a few.

Edit: computers seem so impressive to us because we built them specifically to do the things we didn't evolve to do very well, but I have little doubt that if there were some kind of evolutionary forcing function selecting us for conscious explicit number crunching ability we would not need computers and wouldn't have built them.
And yet, when you include cost of living California has the highest poverty rate in the country.

https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20...
> Our entire country was gerrymandered when they gave every state 2 votes in the senate.

That's not gerrymandering. That's the result of a federal system of government where every state is represented equally in the senate, and on the basis of population in the house.

It's fine if you don't like it, but it's not gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is manipulation of district boundaries. Senate representation of entire states is something else.
Going from 1903 to 1909 is only a ~1mb enablement package [1]. It essentially changes the version number in the registry and enables several existing features.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4517245/feature-upd...
by end of 2021 they only expect 330k total BEV vehicles globally.. that is not a big push from a company making over ten million cars per year. now they expect to reach a million per year by 2023 but that still keeps their percentage very low.

the simple truth is, no they aren't trying very hard. they have to cater both to politicians and unions at home neither of which can sustain the job losses BEVs will lead too; not just in the manufacturing but it cascades into after market, petrol refining, gas stations, and more.
Julia is a blast to do research on this stuff in, if you want to go beyond the basics like TensorFlow and PyTorch allows. The 2020's is going to be the decade of mixing numerical PDEs with machine learning IMO, and Julia already has a lot of features along these lines that are missing from "traditional ML" libraries.
There was a TRS-80 with a 68000...

Also, I know that ELIZA was available for TRS-DOS (which I think ran on the Z80) and wasn't that based on Lisp?
Hi! and Happy new year, everyone.
I had a goal to finish this little hobby ML project this year, so I stayed in tonight to get it done. It searches for artisanal gear for sale on instagram. It works by quickly scraping your search term (without the '#' please, and don't ask ;) and running the results through a machine learning model to find the good stuff. Search should be instant thanks to redis streams, and redisAI. For tonight the demo is running off my laptop, so hopefully most of your are out celebrating, or you might kill it.

Happy 2020 :)
Do you know what Citizens United is?

Where do you get your information?
There's a decision of the German high court finding there's no inalienable right to get high. However, the right to an education is a fundamental human right.

I'm not saying I understand or agree with the fundamental arguments. In fact, I don't think there aren't any arguments that were not subjective.

I'd say moderate intoxication is not a necessary evil. School is, though. Well, mild intoxication, for lack of a better word, is inavoidable. School is avoidable though.

Speaking from personal experience I find drug use and learning can be at odds very much. The topics are interrelated. And your comparison is backwards. If you are really saying: There can be good reasons not to go to college, but these don't generalize--whatever reasons those may be; Then we can prohibit drug use, if we can make school compulsory. There's no equivalence.

I mean how ridiculuous would it sound that, we must get these people high!? We must let them have relieve at the cost of a few failed existences--sounds not much better. It's OK in case of college, because we need that to reduce the need for it--something like that, if not to cure alzheimer. At this point I note that my idea of drug use chiefly to get high might strike someone as odd and in need of regulation.

That's what they call for, after all, control, information, responsibility. What would that look like in practice? Only one way to find out, you have to inform yourself.

The message that it's bad and hence illegal is therefore the simplest. It does not incur any further responsibility for the emitter, but leaves it completely with the user: It incures duty in prisons--that's the users fault, they didn't have to. Prohibition is a reasonable form of control, too. Because, first those who must participate will find a way any way, whether to their own detriment or not. And then, getting caught should always follow a prior fuck up. Import a substance that sells at the price of, I don't know, alluminum, although it's literally peanuts--hell yeah you are morally corrupt. And I don't see the price coming down after legilization. Whereas getting imprisoned for possession is rather difficult where I'm from, so it's a proxy for worse offenses that get one in the spotlight, often enough.

Perhaps price is a measure of control. If time is money, then an economist sees a lot of time going to waste; perhaps even in colleges and business schools. Thereby I've achieved reduction ad absurdum, commiting to the same falacious comparison as you.

If there's anything else I wanted to say, could have or should've said, the I forgot. My memory is very bad, sorry. I blame information technology, and a sped up aging process.
Found a Way to Productize Commitment
Imagine you could render commitment as a productize service:

-shared service plan
-flexible service plan
-dedicated service plan?

Grupa.io has unlocked the product engineering service industry by having service providers render service based on subscribed service plan of customers
One can see this at a higher level in Golang, where a gofunc are reading/updating a map - and run with -race then it shows where you have to use a Mutex call to lock that Map for the access, R or RW. Higher level but pretty simple to see.
People tell me this, but I've been waiting for years in the US for competition to make our healthcare cheaper/better than other countries, but it never seems to come.
When I've had to do similar, the easiest and fastest way has always been install spark -> Create an external spark sql table from the csvs -> use spark sql to join and aggregate/write. If you haven't used spark before it sounds complicated but its actually really quick and easy.

In general the operation on my laptop can get up to 200 MB/s, it's basically IO limited to the SSD of your machine.
No luck for me on Chrome on a Pixel3a, either. I can select a character, but I can't move it.
you really think it's time?
I had the same thought. Also interesting to know that Barcelona is surrounded by toll roads Catalonia was supposed to make free after they paid for themselves but it decided not to. So I’ve heard.
I would say it is freaking stupid post... But in the end it is important. Security is about people who have credentials and don't disclose those. Two factor auth with app would prevent that, but maybe someone who reads this article will also start using 2FA.

Pity that author did not mentioned 2FA.
You are correct and I misused that term. I thought it was any form of changing/manipulating the system in order to allow minority rule but it’s specific about changing boarders which doesn’t apply to what I was referencing.
Just want to second this. It's a great read and McAlevy is a smart and experienced strategist and scholar. You can find her talking about her ideas in old episodes of the New York radio show Behind the News, all of which are online.
Would you happen to have links?
AOL added their nntp support around then. It’s called September after the influx of new college students each fall. Eternal because now noobs arrived every day instead of just for school.
This is really cool!

Does anyone know if there's a way to hack an Echo Dot and use it as the speaker/mic for Rhasspy? Rolling out our own hardware that is as effective as a Dot would probably be very difficult?
how many of them were running away from academia? It's no secret that the academic prospect of perpetual postdoctry is unattractive.
Thanks for the info. That is definitely good to have spelled out.

I don't believe I ever said that xsv shouldn't exist, or has no legitimate purpose, or was written out of ignorance - just that join is useful for similar tasks and worth knowing about, particularly because it's usually available without an install or compile.

You've obviously done a lot more CSV wrangling than I have, and the info here on what exactly xsv does that join cannot is helpful.

Thanks for sharing!
Re your second point: How is the SSR scene in Go land? Are there thriving ecosystems?

Besides, it took me a long to leave pug/stylus, I'am still not sure if a pug-based SSR is still the best way to get stuff out of the door. But again, opting for an 10 years old stack let you miss lot of things (eg maintainability of react code is top-notch).
“Sorry this is so long, I didn’t have time to make it shorter”
We have an excellent material for fusion reactor walls. It's the highly-radioactive waste from a fission reactor.

The neutron bombardment makes the waste less radioactive.

With recycling and purification steps, we can direct the equipment to generate more of the isotopes we value and less of the isotopes that are undesirable.
Afaik, a union can tell you what you can and cannot do, while I only want a team of well funded lawyers to change some laws. And the u word attracts unnecessary attention. Let's call it a club, actually.
Jacobin magazine, In These Times, Labor Notes and other publications like that cover contemporary union movements thoroughly, and it's pretty much light reading imo.
I was looking up this today without much luck, I’d actually like to try to use either the echo dot or google home for generic videoconferencing (zoom)
I have lots of non-old friends* with whom I enjoy exchanging postcards. You can't stick Instygram to the refrigerator or put it in a frame, especially since the number of households with a printer is dwindling.

I would totally use this as a paid service. Current USPS post card rate is 35¢. I'd pay up to a dollar for this service; hopefully that would cover labor and overhead.

*It's worth noting that Gen-Z ("Zoomers" ick.) is correcting some of the mistakes of the millennials and swinging back toward the habits of Boomers and Gen-X. For example, there was an article in the newspaper a few weeks ago that catalog distribution and sales are up massively thanks to Gen-Z because unlike their predecessors, they don't place all of their trust in something just because it's online. I think a good number of them might also latch onto something like this.
You're thinking of the base model. The ID.3 comes in three battery sizes with up to 125kW charging. Here's the selection of ID.3 models with Danish pricing (which isn't comparable to the rest of Europe):

https://www.electrive.com/2019/12/19/volkswagen-announces-id...

If you look at Tesla's Danish site for the Model 3, the Standard Range Plus has a WLTP range of 409km and costs 369,900 DKK. The mid-range ID.3 has a WLTP range of 420 km and costs 309,995 DKK.

So the mid-range ID.3 has slightly more range than a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus at a lower price point.
> Maybe it's literary sci fi handwaving, but there must be rules based level of abstraction that contains all we can conceive of and express.

> rules based level of abstraction

that's not literature, that's bad grammar.

Sorry.
Because you said that you’d take an OS with a registry over one with dotfiles, and his point is that these days you have both
I think you misunderstand what i mean by "precalculated". I just mean the answer is embeded in the source code and not calculated at runtime. It doesnt matter how you embed it in the source code, whether that is a list literal or constructed via functions or whatever

Edit: for clarity, the reason i think this is kind of a cop out, is that in the article the author seems to call out not using if-then-else as a benefit of this solution, compared to the normal version that takes a list of integers and transforms it using if/then/else and mod operations. But i dont really think it counts as not using if/then/else if you literally do the same operation in your head and then just write down the transformed list explicitly, to save the computer the effort of transforming the list at runtime for you.
Recursion Schemes (Edward Kmett)
So the 48 laws of power is required reading material?

Link to google talk of Robert Greene (2018) :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaVhMt71qE
One can see this at an even higher level in Rust, where you don't even need a "race checker" to avoid data races in safe code - the compiler will force the use of patterns like Mutex<> or Rwlock<> (or others) for stuff that might be accessed concurrently in ways that would otherwise break mutual exclusion.