skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Man pages are intended to be an exhaustive description of the individual options, switches and command arguments and what they do; but they won't tell you how to combine those to be useful in your particular case. It's up to you to figure that out.

No, thankfully.

Try `man man | col -b | grep EXAMPLES`

(As an example, grep was finding EX but not EXA. Man told me I could pipe to col -b to strip formatting, hinting the issue might be special characters. This was quite helpful of them, even if it isn't strictly "man's responsibility".
Apparently yes

"...Conclusion: Main findings show that students who read texts in print scored significantly better on the reading comprehension test than students who read the texts digitally..."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256563189_Reading_l...
General data retention was also banned by EU courts, I think.

While Germany is over and over trying to integrate something like that with dubious reasoning ("it will only be used against terrorists and other really bad crimes" - reality is that everybody wants his piece of it, even to use against false parking), the EU regularly puts a stop to this.

So, it's great to have this higher-level legislative to stop single countries efforts, but there could even be done more...
> Python is not fundamentally single threaded

Yes it is. It is not designed to run fast on multi-core CPUs, because there were mostly single-core CPUs when Guido made the language. It has been always a problem since multi-core CPUs are more frequent and it's a front where Python is losing the battle (against Go for example because of way easier concurrency support).
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll keep in mind that next time.
One thing I love about SMUDGE is that SMUDGING again undoes the effect. If only that worked for my glasses.

DEFER is great! But the word that resolves it should have been named REFED.
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I gave this a try for a few queries, but the results are very varied. Often you get the landing page for a study with its PDF behind a research/journal paywall (even with the "Free" filter applied, so not sure what "free" means to Google). Sometimes the "dataset" is some kind of visualization without any obvious way to get the raw data. Only a couple of results had a JSON or CSV to download.

Overall a bit underwhelming.
Are there any similar tests but focused on privacy ? No online database entry, just your plain raw data. Use your own software or local statical models to look for pre-conditions, etc. No looking for family members, unless I want to upload my data to some website, and then be able to have it removed at any time.
how is "treating individuals differently" not an aid to population control?
Once Librem 5 is ready, this problem will be solved for many nerdy people here. It's just the lack of choice now.
> Google is pretty much taking your shit nowadays

Apple is doing the same thing on it's own turf. If you make successful app expect to see 80% functionality crap copy added to next iOS release as a feature.
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I agree with you, and I'll add that they will simply (continue to) use companies like this Clearview AI:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-priv...
This. Do it the stupid way first, I've heard it said.
A lot of really good answers in this thread. I had a great mentor years ago and she really taught me the importance of working cleanly and professionally. Proper code formatting, checking your comments for spelling mistakes, indentation, auto formatting on save, linting, writing solid documentation, rebasing and tidying up your commits to create clear steps that a reviewer can step through. All of the things that often get overlooked but are very important in how you come across as a professional developer.
Did the tests determine if this effort actually improved ambient air quality, or just that the filters worked?
So many trivializings on this article - best to junk them. India's TOIlet paper has better articles.

I stopped when author calls bindhi- a dot of paint - this is an insult

And a shameless plug of Karan Thapar - A so called anglophile jurno libtard who happens to be relative of Nehrus - Congress party owning family.
We have fancy business cards at work. I was asked to proof mine and I said "I'm no designer, but that magenta lozenge in the middle looks really ugly".

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Yes, these are all over cigarette packs. I don't know why legislators overlooked snus when making that requirement.
I once decided that the SNMP agent for an embedded device should not implement the leafs (responses) by simple hard coded C functions, one for each implemented leaf on the great standardized ASN.1 tree.

Instead I implemented some kind of ASN.1 tree parser, which parsed to lisp, then I tied that through C bindings to some kind of callback to the lisp functions, and clever reuse of datatypes and whatever. I don't even remember how it worked!

I don't remember if it did all the processing on the device or if I had (the same flavour) lisp running in the build system too. I just remember that in the end, even I didn't know exactly how it worked or how to hunt down the inevitable bugs. It looked very elegant though, with lots of autogenerated types from the ASN.1 spec.

The C code which eventually replaced my unholy mess had to handle the datatypes manually in each function, but it was easy to understand and easy to update. Fewer bugs too, I'm sure. And one less dependancy. (The lisp engine.) It didn't have the automatic integration with our vendor MIB file, you'd have to manually add or update functions in the C code whenever someone in another part of the company decided to update the MIB file.

Small price to pay. I'm not saying the "elegant" idea could have been made workable and easy for other developers to understand, but definitely not by me in that point in time. Lisp at the time was my hammer and I saw a lot of nails. (I wasn't even any good with the hammer for actual nail like things, I think.)
Opting out isn't free, though.

It's a social signal and one that, potentially, brings with it additional stress as you're actively opting out of something your colleagues/superiors believe is good enough an idea that they've implemented it.
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The nuclear phase out will be finished in 2022 but coal phase out is 2038. 18 more years, 1 more generation away.

Coal+Lignite production is 170.9 TWh. Current nuclear production is 75.2 TWh and all renewables combined are 242.6 TWh.

So Germany has to find 75.2 TWh in 2 years and 170.9 TWh in 18 years. In the last 5 years, renewables are increased only by 50 TWh.

So, it will be extremely expensive to cover all these power requirements in renewables only. What do you think will happen? Either Germany will start buying power or buying gas to fund new natural gas power plants.

In any way, phasing out nuclear power is one of the worst ideas Germany has ever executed.
"Digitally" seems to mean computer screen in that study. I wonder how smaller screens compare, and different display types (LCD, vs OLED, vs eInk). A kindle should be functionally pretty much like paper.
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> You have a nice simple solution to a simple problem. Do you just do a ‘recompile’ in the IEx shell?

Yup. I have a few umbrella apps where I'll do Application.stop() and .start(), and sometimes recompiling isn't enough, but 99% of the time it's all I need to do.

For embedded stuff I suppose Docker could be very useful too. Any reason you don't run Erlang 'bare' and use releases? Apologies if that question makes no sense; I have no experience (yet) in that area but the coming year I'm excited to start working with Nerves and various IoT stuff :).
Meanwhile in China local governments even install surveillance cameras on the top of 3900 metres mountain
https://twitter.com/kidrulit/status/1216197264202293253?s=21

Other than ethical problems cameras cause urban planing and aestheticcal problems.
Are there studies about how much you can read? I can see this getting applied to all reading and making students read from textbooks as if it will help. Were reading isn't what's important, rather finding what to read is.
Thanks, it is super interesting!
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I've been using caffeine as stimulant since early teens, to try and help with focus, but it's been really hard to avoid over-stimulating.
Interesting. But they did not say if the bus actually removed more pollutants than it creates on its own. As cars (and busses) do have some serious wear and tear on wheels and breaks.

> According to tests, audited by manufacturer Pall, and being assessed by the University of Southampton, the bus removed approximately 65g of pollutants from the air and cleaned 3.2 million cubic metres of the city’s air.
That is not the meaning used in the article. Of course any script can be messed up with a sufficiently bad production. The question is if there is a high risk that a competent disaster-free production will still lead to a bad movie. "Babe" is a great example - it could very easily have been a ridiculous movie even in the hands of a competent director. But somehow it worked.
I'm curious as to why. Would e-ink make a difference? What's there to learn differently from screen to paper?
>You mentioned Aumann's theorem, so it seemed for me that you are bayesian thinker.

As with all things in Logic/Formal languages - the conclusions are true IF you accept the axioms. The CHOICE to accept (or reject) the axioms (read: play the game according its set of normative rules) is up to you. It's cooperative game theory.

Aumann's theorem applies to me in as much as my goal in any conversation/interaction is to optimise for consensus-building - to this end, I will happily abandon my language and adopt my interlocutors' (if they are not comfortable doing so). If my interlocutors understand how 'the game' works and are themselves comfortable using language effectively/metaphorically/constructively/adaptively in real-time then there's no need for compromise on my part.

It seems to me that you are playing a non-cooperative game. You are trying to 'be right. That signals to me that you aren't even playing by the same rules as me.

So if you dislike the word 'methods' and you would much prefer me to use the word 'beliefs' when talking to you - I will happily do that (after I've made my point).

>All I want to show, that you cannot reason without some beliefs you take as granted. So your claim that you have no beliefs is false.

Then it's false. So what? You seem like you belong to the Church of Truth also...

All models are wrong, but some are useful --George Box

Since you are the one making positive claims about 'my beliefs', then (by the rules I am guessing you subscribe to, but I don't) the burden of proof is on you?
Anothe fun fact: these are perfect cases for small electronics projects. They have a small and a large compartment, where you can fit e.g. an ESP or Arduino Nano and a battery in the big one, and a click switch and an LED in the small one. The latter has a flexible lid, so you can work the switch just by clicking the lid. Completely innocuous WiFi snoop box, or FastLED controller, or a million other things.
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Back in the RoR days I guess it was RVM that I used. I've also used NVM in the past.

But honestly in my current work I've not needed it yet. As far as Elixir/Phoenix goes, things have been stable enough so far that I've not needed to run multiple versions, and I try to rely on node-stuff as little as possible (more and more LiveView), so I can get away with either updating everything at once, or leaving things be.

Furthermore, when various apps diverge too much, I usually find there's a need to run them on separate VPS', which I find cleaner and safer than trying to make them run alongside each other.

But thanks for reminding me about ASDF. It seems like a much nicer solution than using multiple tools!
The article is more about being read TO by a caregiver, not so much the babies reading themselves (as far as I've understood). So it might be more related to verbal communication I guess.
HPE cloud has been mentioned, among others:

A report a few days ago revealed that hackers linked with China’s government were stealing data from more than a dozen global telecom companies for years.

According to Reuters, eight of the world’s biggest technology service providers were hacked by APT10 spies, with attacks going as far back as to 2010 in some instances. Dubbed as “Cloud Hopper,” the campaign affected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM, Fujitsu, Tata Consultancy Services, NTT Data, Dimension Data, Computer Sciences Corporation, and DXC Technology.

https://bgr.com/2019/06/27/china-vs-usa-massive-apt10-cloud-...
... In some ways.

Kindle interface is okayish but you still can't flip back and forth as effortlessly as actual paper.
The author is saying bundle the car with recreational travel, not just your bog standard vacation bundle.
Are there any AI benchmarks that use Wikipedia as a corpus?
I bet it’s more about all the distractions from reading you can have when you use a tablet vs the clean and disconnected experience of an e ink device
The world has moved on from Pong, you know. :) There is plenty of great games with which you can take as much time as you want in every step.
> (don't Google lotus seed pods if you're not ready to risk a very unpleasant feeling).

Only 15-17% of the population get that reaction (it's called trypophobia)
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"the bus removed approximately 65g of pollutants from the air and cleaned 3.2 million cubic metres of the city’s air."

This sounded surprisingly low to me, at 20µg/m³ removed, so I went looking for more info. It seems correct:

"Typical urban atmospheric loadings of PM range from tens to hundreds of µg m⁻³
for PM10. For a city such as London, a mean mass concentration for PM10 of the order of 30 µg m⁻³ might be observed; considering the area of Greater London (ca. 400 km²
) and assuming a 1 km boundary layer height, this equates to around 12 tonnes of
material suspended above the city." -- https://www.rsc.org/images/environmental-brief-no-4-2014_tcm...

Comparison of PM10 for highly polluted European cities here: https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/comparison_of_...

"Go-Ahead’s estimates show that the expanded fleet could remove as much as 1.25kg of PM10 from the air every year. If the air-filter was deployed on 2,500 buses across the UK, it could remove as much as 588kg of PM10 particles every year. In parallel, Bluestar has been fitting solar panels to buses, with a total of 19 vehicles to have them in place by the end of July. When five further buses are fitted with air filters, one of them will have a solar panel as well. This will enable a trial later this year to see whether solar energy can be used to make the air filter completely self-sufficient." -- https://www.bluestarbus.co.uk/air-filtering-bus-trial-succes....
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Can't you use the ADFS for SSO against windows? It is heavily used for web services that do not have support for Kerberos around here.
I think this is a fairly inaccurate mischaracterization of Prelec's work and BTS. If you search "bayesian truth serum" on Google scholar, you'll find that there are hundreds of papers from credible researchers based or inspired by Prelec's work. Just because the math is simple does not mean Prelec shouldn't be credited with having introduced it to economics and mechanism design. Also the core BTS papers were published in Science and AAAI, so they are pretty mainstream.

I hadn't heard of the deal/fraud you're describing and am curious to learn more, but you should include some citations before trashing influential, interesting work.

Paper from Science, worth reading:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Drazen_Prelec/publicati...
What's street art got to do with it? In the city I live in, there are areas specifically reserved by the government for pro-grade graffiti. It looks great. These areas are where people really are too, it's not like they're shoved miles out of the city centre.

No protesting? Why not? Democratic countries all have laws on the book that allow and regulate protests.

Social credit? Why does that depend on face recognition?

All these are government related. I think there's a huge problem with such anti-face recognition arguments, namely, all of them can be implemented by just interrogating the phone in your pocket. Phones are linked to contracts linked to verified government-issued identities. Phone companies can track their location very precisely, especially now with 5G. So governments have had the ability to track people en-masse for decades, and have done it, Snowden showed us the PowerPoints and ... nobody cared. Only some people in the tech industry but wider society, no. In practice people prefer safety and low crime.

That's why I've come to see all the EU's privacy actions as just posing for political reasons. Do any of these laws make NSA-like organisations illegal? No? Do they stop police using ANPR or phone triangulation? No? Then they are just for show. GDPR is an especially pernicious offender as it's so badly drafted, but the cookie law is a clearer example: it makes no difference to anyone's privacy but does make life in the EU worse on a daily basis. Banning face recognition is the kind of micro-managing that governments throughout history have proven very bad at and which are riven with unanticipated side effects (well, unanticipated by the regulators).
I got that impression as well, which is why I use the program f.lux. On a podcast recently I heard a doctor discuss a company Felix Gray that targets a specific range of wavelengths of blue light. See their page[1] for specifics. I ordered a pair because I needed to spend my vision insurance $ for last year. Lastly, since this post probably won't get much attention, I have a friend doing his PhD work on this area of research, so I'll ask him when I see him in 2 weeks and report back to you :)

[1] https://shopfelixgray.com/lens-technology#eyeglasses
> Obvious one would be no more purse snatchers, ever. Almost no rapes, much fewer violent crimes. No lost kids. Lives and wallets saved.

That is unrealistically optimistic. At best purse snatchers will move to parts out of view of cameras or wear something.
Like all these proposals they are only effective against non-criminals. Also, "car pulls up, kidnaps a kid" or "kid runs away from home and hides" seems entirely unrelated.
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Argh. BNF.
I had enough of that to last me a lifetime by 1986 (I used to do X.400 stuff).

That said, it’s pretty cool.
If they ban facial recognition, they'll just work around it by recognizing every other part of you but your face.
I agree, and am equally skeptical, but I'm saying:

Maybe there's more to the story than what the detainee chooses to share in his letter to the editor.

Read the linked report, even if it's just for insight into how the system isn't working.

Edit: Also, fwiw, apparently he was a well known al Qaeda "facilitator" in Karachi, meaning he was implicated by others too. It's not solely his "admission". But also the report claims he's a well behaved, cooperative prisoner who voluntary shared a lot...

It's obviously still based on trusting the classified report, if you want to believe it.
There's a study that said people thought these car sharers would mean people would own fewer cars, but instead many car owning families used them as 2nd cars (I suppose that's better than having 2 cars per family).

I lived in a Drive Now city and used them a few times a month when I thought "I'm too lazy to walk to the subway and wait, and then walk home from the subway/it's too late and the subway is 15 minutes wait", without owning my own car. It would cost maybe 5 Euro to drive home.
Any opinion on the future of multi-cores?

Specifically what about lower-freq-more-cores becoming more and more common as we improve programming parallelism?.
Yes. DF shows that with a complex simulation, emergent behaviour is enough to make for a very compelling game experience. Similar dynamics are at work in other simulation games such as rimworld, factorio and oxygen not included (obviously not in the fantasy genre). However I do think having a human involved could sometimes make the DF experience better by tipping the scales in favour of a more fun experience rather than what DF players call a "Fun" experience.

For example, recently I built a beautiful fort. Everything was working great and all my idiot dwarves were happy. Fluid dynamics worked slightly differently from my expectation and confusion around the presence or absence of a wall caused by the tileset meant that I went to fill my well I had a whole river running down through my base and slowly filling it up from the bottom with no accessible top entrance remaining. I had the choice of letting my guys drown or a massive grind to fix the problem during which probably 2/3rds of my base would have starved to death and/or gone into a tantrum deathspiral. I chose to just stop and start a new fort. An experienced human DM could well have decided to essentially change the rules of the simulation and thereby given me some out that allowed me to rescue the situation through heroic effort and sacrifice and get back on track.

This is the problem with pure emergent behaviour from complex simulation. There's lots of interesting stuff that can happen, but you can paint yourself into very boring corners also and the simulation doesn't care about that.
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They spoke so beautifully and clearly. As if playing in an old movie
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It's funny how sonos became big with "multi-room" speakers..
But now they're mainly used as a wireless speaker with spotify.

Not many people actually use it as multiroom speakers
People do that every day. Ever bought a mobile phone? You only get software updates for a few years at most, and I don’t think any phones from 25 years ago are usable today due to old networks being shut down. Some of the devices being deprecated pre-date the iPhone!
There are differences - like the ability to more easily flick backwards and forwards by several pages - whether this is enough to make a difference I can't tell, but it is one of the reasons I prefer to read non fiction in book rather than ebook form.
Hang on, haven’t they just signed a deal with a drug company worth $$$? You’d think there would be hundreds of ways to monetise the types of people who have signed up for their platform...
Don't I have even more privacy in public space? Sure, people know what I look like, but not my name, my email, the contents of my backpack, since when I have been a member of this forum etc. .
If they see me again the next day they might not even be sure that I am the same person (unlike unique usernames with history).