skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree being in a room pumped with CO₂ would significantly deteriorate cognitive functions, but I have a feeling the studies are overblown WRT climate change.

Humans have high adaptability to increased CO₂ loads (see e.g. freedivers), but adaptation takes time. The studies usually deal with temporary CO₂ increases / O₂ decreases, often in way higher concentrations like 1-10%, whereas a couple percent atmospheric CO₂ would already burn us to a crisp (figuratively).
DigixDAO votes to liquidate $64M crypto
Anyone here using FreeBSD for JavaScript/Node/PHP dev? Curious if there are any common tools that don't work or any unexpected gotchas. I currently am using Ubuntu, but would be curious to give FreeBSD a try. I used to run it about a decade ago and always liked it.
No, that's silly. Unless mammals are magic, the only way a species could possibly know about population is by the number of individuals it sees locally, and the number they see. That would cause there to be a huge and noticeable difference between eg rural and urban populations.
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>Serious question: what is the common electron app business case?

Easy portability (not perfect) between all major platform
Are you a student? Most states don't automatically consider you a resident in that case. You won't change your driver's license, and you probably won't pay state taxes to that state.

Are you a contractor, and for how long? Again, you probably don't automatically change residency until you pass some magic number of days.

Many of the state laws are often a bit vague about the corner cases like students or contractors. The general principle seems to be "As long as you only vote once, in one place, you probably are within the bounds of most laws.

As always, YMMV, IANAL, etc.
Well, then what's the point in keeping a status page
? Ah, right. Marketing.

That's my conclusion on what status pages have become. Which of course raises the question: what do I do when I see a service with N problems in their status pages over the last X days? Are they being naive, or was their service so bad that they were forced to write it down?

I agree with you, there is a lot of money to make there. I think there are already a few companies doing that, though.
I had great looking results with sway + alacritty + swaybar + firefox-wayland on Nixos 20.03-pre.
Except Kyle misleadingly calls his licenses open source when they aren't. Prosperity discriminates between commercial and non-commercial organizations rather than on how the code is used. He should stop muddying the waters.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_action_on_climate...

"""
Several scientific studies have shown that when people, especially those living in developed countries but more generally including all countries, wish to reduce their carbon footprint, there are a few key "high-impact" actions they can take such as: having one fewer child (58.6 tonnes), living car-free (2.4 tonnes), avoiding one round-trip transatlantic flight (1.6 tonnes), and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tonnes). These differ significantly from much popular advice for "greening" one's lifestyle, which seem to fall mostly into the "low-impact" category.
"""

... although I have seen air travel clearly dominate car use in other sources. Obviously it depends on how you use the car and what type it is.

Also, not having children being so impactful seems to assume that emissions are proportional to population, which seems doubtful to me (haven't looked into the original sources though).
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In my experience, the vast majority of people have triggers that shut down reasonable communication. For instance, economics is a touchy subject on this forum. It takes a great deal of patience to put up with people who may end up wasting a large amount of your time.

In reality, I think the understanding that people should avoid conflict can only exist in periods of increasing consumption to distract from an understanding that societal engagement depends on more than voting. This is why voting does not require an explanation, especially in online forums: to silence minority opinions without actually confronting contradicting ideals.
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Was anyone else really put off by the congratulatory tone of the article, and the #Quirks list on the resume?:
https://github.com/emilwallner/Emil-Wallner-LinkedIn-Resume#...
Fat would do the opposite. The core body temperature would be the same, because otherwise it would be too hot. The distal body temperature would be insulated from the sources of heat, so the inside of your mouth, forehead, rectum etc would be cooler.
"Random data" didn't mean a random data set from a different domain. It meant random data from the same domain - simulated price/volume data within a reasonable range. If it can't work well on that, then it isn't a trading algorithm, it is a glorified fit curve.
Why not just set up a SPARQL endpoint, which seems to be the recommended standard for accessing data over Web platforms?
That is such a succinct and better way of something I’ve been saying to my wife and kids for years: worrying about something just makes it twice as bad. But this is way better, thanks!
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"And there is nothing like amping up the inequality of the distribution of wealth"

You're adding a little bit of beef flavor to your comment with that one. Inequality of wealth is something that is increasing. That's a fact. The causes and effects of it have pros and cons that should be debated. People "amping it up" is an assertion that tastes somewhat of beef - but it can be made about both sides.
Any Indian Grocery Store in bay area, in Guava season like summer. Some example chain stores are New India Bazar, India Cash & Carry, and many other single store. I sold these all of this last year as a Cashier, and in cheap as Apples.
Indeed, but what's the magnitude?

The question is, how much information is encoded in those algos (to me, low-order logical truths about a few elementary variables, low degree of freedom for the system overall), compared to how much information is encoded in the "algos of the human brain" (and actually the whole body, if we admit that intelligence has little motivation to emerge if there's no signal to process and no action to ever be taken).

I was merely pointing out this outstanding asymmetry, as I see it, and the unfairness of judging our AI progress (or setting goals for it) relatively to anything even remotely close to evolved species, in terms of end-result behavior, emergent high-level observations.

Think of it this way: a tiny neural net (equivalent to the brain of what, not even an insect?) "generationally evolved" enough by us to be able to recognize cats and license numbers and process human speech and suggest songs and whatnot is really not too shabby. I'd call it monumental successs to be able to focus a NN so well on a vertical skill. But that's also low-order low-freedom, in the grander scheme of things, and "focus" (verticality) is just one aspect of intelligence (e.g. the raging battle is for "context" as we speak, horizontality and sequentiality of knowledge; and you can see how the concept of "awareness", even just mechanical, lies behind that). So, many more steps to go. So vastly much more to encode in our models before they're able to take a lesson in one standing and a few examples.

It really took big-big-big data for evolution to do it, anyway, and we're speeding that up thanks to focus in design, and electronics to hasten information processing, but not fundamentally changing the law of neural evolution, it seems.

If you ask me, the next step is to encode structural information in the neuron itself, as a machine or even network thereof, because that's how biology does it (the "dumb" logic gate transistor model is definitely wrong on all accounts, too simplistic). Seems like the next obvious move, architecturally.
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> They already gave their "bribes" to get it fixed, by buying a product and expecting a reasonable level of support

Ah yes, that certainly sufficiently compensates independent security research.

Your complaints aren’t worth shit unless you’re willing to pay up.
Even so, why does the specific title matter ? Ultimately, all these are non tenured positions. I don't see how creating an official title would solve any problems. As others mentioned, some places also have official post-doc titles.
C.f. http://boringtechnology.club/
This is a fascinating article but I can't help feel the cheesy synth sound with the vibrato and echoes used to render the music detracts from the presentation and interpretation a fair amount. A fairly plain piano sound would have worked better in my opinion. A subjective matter of course.
I know you don't want to celebrate, but you should. My wife had two in a row while trying for our 2nd child. It was really rough going for us circa 2007-2009. One of them required a DNC, which was just a miserable experience due to the "abortion" connotations.

We made it through together. When you have children you have to accept that you may lose them and must be prepared to handle it. Still in all, several years got eaten up there with worry, doubts, and fears.

We had a 100% healthy "Double-Rainbow" son in 2010, he's just about 10 years old now.

Keep your head up, be kind to yourself, and be aware that LOTS more people than you imagine have gone through this.
I'm also LGBT and I have to guess that

>in many cities the queer people all know each other

is massively untrue based on my own anecdatum. Where I'm from, there is certainly a group who all know each other, who hang out at the gay bars, and who seem to have dated many others in the same group at some point. I have seen this by snooping on instagram or facebook - the same set of faces shows up at any gay event, and they do all seem to know each other.

I assume you're in that kind of community in your city. I'm glad for you. I'm certainly not within my city, although I've had "encounters" with people in that group. Given the significant percentage (3.5% according to google) of LGBT people in the population, I have to believe the vast majority of LGBT people are on the outside of any such group you're describing. Our social life is probably drawn from much more average sources (work, college friends, possibly church) than what you describe.
> Speaking for myself, I’ve never found C++’s complexity appealing, and it only seems to be getting worse over the last 20 years.

True, but that's why we've got Rust these days. (Rust is actually more optimized than C, e.g. it will automatically reshuffle your structs to get rid of excess padding, and reference accesses will automatically take advantage of compiler-checked 'restrict' constraints, thus equalizing performance with e.g. FORTRAN.)
When I was doing a lot of ecommerce we used to recommend Avalara (www.avalara.com), for both US and international businesses in regards to sales/use tax compliance and import duties.

They are not a SaaS startup where you just sign up and use it, but for all the headaches they took off clients hands they were worth it. I don't remember their costs, and it has been long enough now it probably wouldn't be valid anyway. Not sure they'd be cost effective for a smaller business but I'd call them if I had a need.
Using hand-drawn sketch diagrams is useful, as it suggests it's a draft, not a finished diagram.

However, you can do all of this and more with powerpoint, it's my default sketching tool at the moment.
More info: https://blog-insider.office.com/2019/07/03/sketchy-shapes-fo...
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I think this refers to the attempt of MySQL AB to invent "internal distribution" so where if you have proprietary software which you might be distributing from one department to another in the same company you can't do that with GPL2 and need to buy the proprietary version
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A single flight (per passenger) from NYC to London is equivalent to 11% of the annual carbon footprint of an average UK citizen:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

Because of the altitude the emissions are worse than those emitted at sea level.

We have a lot more cars on the road than airplanes in the sky, so reducing their carbon footprint would have a bigger impact. But on an individual basis, flying is one of the most carbon intensive travel options.
Could establish an interface for those extensions to participate in the JIT and ICs. JSC does that for the DOM.

Other than that just try to make calls into JITed code as fast as possible. But that needs to be the backup plan, with the main plan being that perf-sensitive extensions play with the JIT.
Yep, very interesting. Will be doubly interesting to see the follow up, since you know there will be a big response.
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"Make money" is a misnomer, but successful PWAs tossed around here include Uber, Starbucks, etc...
SVG technically allows this as well, tracking pixels and everything.
I'm having trouble differentiating 1 from 2. Some seem obvious. Discovering deep learning is #2, labeling some data, throwing it at an algorithm after tuning a few hyper parameters sounds like #1.

But in my mind there is also a lot of overlap. Mind providing some concrete examples? For instance what is discovering "transfer learning", "pre-training with self-supervised learning", or "building PyTorch"?
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sounds like real and deep grief

ps: this prompted me to dig about classes of grief. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

research has a notion of "complicated grief" when fhe process is somehow stalled for long.
Also: TCR == T cell receptor

Here are some the descriptions of the related methods currently researched:

https://www.cancerresearch.org/immunotherapy/treatment-types...
But there are some actions that can deliver huge gains immediately (e.g., replacing coal plants by almost anything else) for a low cost (both in terms of money and reduced standard of living / reduced growth). Reducing air travel is great, but there are few alternatives and not doing it at all anymore would drastically change modern society.

A carbon tax would make that discussion moot though: It can be adjusted dynamically to follow a defined CO2 reduction schedule, and carbon savings would come from low hanging fruit first, and ultimately affect everything.
Probably most people past their mid 20s, I don't know that many schools teach about it.
Sure, it's a good question, and it's not an easy one to answer. The way I learned was honestly closest to "written instructions that come with the check," in that it was just reading information rather than being mentored. I suspect if I ran a UBI program, I would indeed work on some kind of basic instruction about finances that could be stuffed in with checks. But I'd also be trying to figure out some way to measure effectiveness of that sort of insert, ideally along with a few other trial programs. There's only so much you can realistically do, so metrics are pretty essential.
This is great. It made me smile.
It’s more that I think that you won’t get enough semantic understanding of C extensions lifted into any IR for that to be useful.
My only thought is that this article falls into the same trap it’s describing by oversubscribing to conflict and outlying activity.
A lot of comments here blame obesity/sedentary lifestyles/junk food for low body temperature. Let’s look at this:

Obesity: raises temperature
exercise: lowers resting temperature
junk food: raises temperature

What if it’s the reverse? What if your desire to eat and not exercise had a lot to do with being cold?

Frankly I’m not buying the arguments in the article. Occam’s razor says it’s a common nutritional deficiency or environmental toxin affecting the thyroid.
LastPass is $36/year now!? It used to be $12/year (prior to their acquisition by LogMeIn, which is when I bailed).
Body temperatures are currently lower, so the opposite of what you're suggesting with low grade fevers from overprescription of antibiotics.

However, fevers are caused by a subset of the interleukin family, which as a whole causes inflammation. Inflammation was the author's suggestion.

Also, low grade fevers aren't a thing. Fever is caused by the immune system. You can only have a continuous infection with diseases that avoid or supress the immune system. There are a small number of brain-affecting infectious diseases like meningitis that can raise body temperature on their own. Chronically recurring stuff will also give you intermittent fevers, but there's no low-grade. You have it or you don't.
I guess it’s written by non-Germans who speak German then? Awful lot of BMW internals tend to be in German.
Why does this not include the clinically relevant ontologies like ICD9, ICD10, SNOMED, LOINC, and CPT?

Also, folks may find this article interesting: Classification, Ontology, and Precision Medicine (1)

(1) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1615014
> The people who've contacted me (via email) to say positive things I've generally taken at face value about <whatever they said>.

That's good to hear, but what else do you expect them to say? You put them on the spot and I suspect 99% of the people would be polite.

> Maybe I just don't feel people are being weird/creepy when they thank me for the effort I've put into things?

If you didn't think it was weird/creepy, why are you here trying to get validation? I suspect deep down you know it is a bit weird and that's why you are seeking validation here. Or this is just another of those manipulative social engineering ploys you see all over social media.

> Re: "email is impersonal". To me, it's not. But then... I use a lot of emoticons and similar, to help convey things better than "impersonally". :D

That would come off as even creepier unless you are contacting family/friends. And if you are contacting family/friends, why not tell them in person when you meet them? And if it is just business acquaintances who helped you out, emails full of emoticons would come off as silly and unprofessional. But then again, I'm one of those ancient former 90s kids.

I also love that with these types of self-validation posts, only validating comments we know deep down are not true are upvoted, but the reality based critical comments we know deep down are true get downvoted. But whatever the agenda was in regards to your post, I hope you got what you wanted out of it.
The USA currently rounds to nearest cent and it works well. I could buy 1.49 cents worth of something and have it rounded to 1 cent.

If the rounding becomes 5cents rather than 1cent it doesn't change a lot.

I'm reminded of a comedy skit from childhood based on Australia removing 1 and 2 cent pieces. A guy buys 2 cents of petrol at a time repeatedly pushing his car from pump to pump at a service station. It went on for a while and eventually the owner at the counter, who was down a whole 10 cents at this point, just shook his head and laughed while exclaiming "Dickhead!".
This was our experience, having a positive pregnancy test and then my wife getting what we would have thought was just a late, heavy period shortly afterward.

Early testing is nice, but with subsequent attempts to get pregnant we chose to wait quite a bit longer after a missed period before doing a pregnancy test, because we didn't want to go through the roller coaster again.
I installed FreeBSD on my machine about a year ago, and went so far as to buy a copy of Absolute FreeBSD (3rd ed) by Michael Lucas. Much as I admire the FreeBSD ethos, I always end up coming back to Fedora for a very simple reason: the desktop experience on the BSD's has always been painful for me. First, FreeBSD didn't have the driver for my iGPU (Coffeelake), though Linux had support at least six months prior. FreeBSD devs to their credit were very helpful and welcoming when I tried troubleshooting my graphics situation, even writing a small patch for me. Then, when I installed the patched version of the driver and got video output, I had to be careful to maintain the patch. One time I accidentally upgraded all packages, overwriting the patched file and undoing the video support. Eventually I got fed up and just installed Fedora, which always works perfectly, runs like butter, and looks great. I get that the FreeBSD project is much smaller than GNU/Linux, and hardware vendors like Intel and Nvidia are not nearly as supportive in terms of contributing code/checking compatibility. I want to run FreeBSD, I really do. But at the end of the day I just don't have enough hours in the week to be troubleshooting my desktop, I'd rather spend those hours being productive (or being unproductive in a manner of my choosing). It's a great project - with a bit more love for newbies and the desktop experience I think FreeBSD could really shine. One option I think FreeBSD should consider is to offer separate server and workstation editions of each release, like Fedora does. This would help bring resources/attention to the desktop situation and provide an on-ramp for new users who want to try out FreeBSD without diving headfirst into config files and device drivers.
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In some cultures it's common to provide funerals for stillborn babies. Perhaps this part of the reason why.

https://americanpregnancy.org/pregnancy-loss/stillborn-survi...
Excellent! Thanks, I'll check them out!
There are places that exhibit this - they’re just not well advertised. Community organizations like the elks lodge and the masons were good examples but not very modern. Eventually these sorts of things will pop up to fill the need.
Yes, but widespread use didn't immediately follow. Supply problems (which might have been deliberate through competitors) extended through the 1915 time frame. Even then, casual use for everyday aches and pains would have been reserved for the relatively well off.
Sounds like the standard way to teach fluids for civ.eng. All the flows you'll ever encounter will be turbulent, no point in learning about all the beautiful results that are mainly for laminar flows.

The books I mentioned are classics in the field and were first published in 1895 and 1967, respectively. Both are still in print. No computers, just advanced math (vector calculus etc).
Can’t own other businesses when a Cfa operator.
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Can Facebook employees read private messages?
Long story short:
A random scammer tries to sell fake event tickets to a girl via Facebook Chat. She sends him the IP-logger link with an image of a dummy credit card. ("Can you take a look if I can make payments via this card?") Facebook bans the message (due to "link goes against our Community Standards") and there was a visible number of automated bots scanning the URL (Facebook Inc. IP range from New Ark) (+20 minutes after) an iPhone(iOS) with Safari from same Facebook IP opens and take a look as well - is it expected?

src: https://twitter.com/good_lly/status/1219392485618831361

FB Moderators are checking "links against community standards" on their phones?