skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do it non-destructively by bind mounting a binary from ramfs over /bin/init

When it reexecs, the new binary can kill and umount everything and switch roots. If it fails somehow, you just reboot and everything is back to normal.
Yep, I get Christmas cards from my cousins in Tehran. They can eat pork, make and drink wine with no real issue. Iran has (for abrahamic faiths at least) probably the best religious tolerance in the region
It might be fun to make a youtube video attempting to get data using the methods they describe, then finding which methods truly destroy the data. Is Mythbusters still around?
Isn't the real concern how safe the final product is though?
That graph shows ph, not %. And the seawater ph is decreasing over time. I think perhaps you've misread it?
The ever-interesting thing about Ulbricht – every thread devolves into a discussion on whether he "paid someone to murder someone else".

Every stitch of evidence says he did. Defenders will make two claims: 1. he was never charged – despite the fact the schemes were absolutely a part of the conspiracy charges he was convicted of or 2. the evidence was planted!

The first fact being provably untrue and the second being impossible to disprove.

Prison is a dark, and horrendous existence. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I would spend a lifetime avoiding it. I believe in rehabilitation and remorse. I don't believe in "throwing away" people who make mistakes.

But once you've decided that the death of one person is worth less than the "value" of your business, a business specifically designed to thwart obvious laws for your own profit, I have a hard time finding sympathy for you, beyond the basic sympathy I'd extend anyone who is being forced to live with the consequences of their actions.
So the problem is something like it's pretty obvious when someone has taken a psychedelic and no one has figured out a good placebo that can honestly blind the observer.

The counter-argument I've heard is well, should everything in medicine be subject to the double-blind gold standard? Or put another way, is there a class of experiments where the double-blind standard is not applicable to? Is it right to discount a class of experiments just because the proponents of the double-blind standard can't figure out a way to make the double-blind applicable?

I'm a hacker not a doctor, but my instinct is "well, if the only tool you'll accept is a hammer, it's kinda up to you to make this thing look like a nail."
First, yes I know CSAIL and the media lab are different.

Second, it's quite conceivable actual (interesting) research things were and are happening in CSAIL.

To clarify, since this apparently was not obvious:

What I am saying is that basically whatever research and interesting things were being done was pretty much hidden behind a dog and pony show (and some robots and bragging about whatever architect designed the building), and that the marketing front was too slick and central for its own good. It didn't come across as a place for "hackers" (in the MIT sense, though they mentioned "hacking" plenty of times to tout the school) or even just as a place for someone who might want to learn about AI. Instead it came across as a place with a lot of resource for the marketing budget.

(So the impression that things at MIT might be the result of unusually successful marketing more than anything else doesn't surprise me.)

Seeing more whiteboards and coding would have helped, honestly.
I'm fine with vinegar in my salad dressing, but I'm not OK with the chef using it to clean his hands in the place of soap+water.

Sanitized poop is still poop. I'd rather the poop not be there at all, as much as possible.
It's also not remotely close to what the USSR actually did.

Which was practice a weird form of state capitalism, where most corporate profits flowed into subsidizing the political class, the military, infrastructure, and a couple of really inefficient industries.

The government, of course, was adamant that this was just a temporary transition period, and that communism would be achieved soon - like, in a few decades. This 'transition period', of course, lasted nearly 70 years.
I'm not being sarcastic.

The privacy policy I have on my website is used for exactly one app in the Google/iOS App store and is based on a template one I found on GitHub. FWIW, that one app collects exactly zero data on users other than whatever Unity collects for serving opt-in ads.
They have vastly different CO2 emission goals according to what is 'fair', compare:

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/

with:

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/

Despite that China's CO2 emissions are increasing and the US emissions are decreasing, China meets its goal while the US does not.

The following page explains how these goals were set

https://climateactiontracker.org/methodology/comparability-o...
BUT....what if it isn't clean? One worker can infect a whole host of chickens and there is no mitigation that will stop it before it is consumed except for the hope that it is cooked properly. Besides, the "chemical washing" is not chlorine anymore it is just vinegar (What many people put on chicken to eat anyway). So ideally you would have clean farms, clean processing and clean storage and then the consumer would properly cook it...but if one of these does not happen ideally, another cheap way to prevent killing people is to use vinegar to reduce possible sickness even further. The only reason why I can think that this would be apposed is to protect poultry producers in Europe.
Why? Do you believe it is harmful? If so, why?
Half a dozen ad trackers, a/b testing frameworks, & analytics libraries have been the standard in mobile apps for years.

Growth at all costs.
I guess now that the Mueller report was a flop we all go back to hating the FBI?
I am not going to trust the veracity of any story hosted at a site called freeross.org. They have no objectivity.
Vulkan/OpenGL are multiplatform
You are pretty much right. It isn't IO bound.

If your definition said IO must be the only thing limiting the time, then few programs would be IO bound, except trivial ones like "count arriving packets". In a packet counter, your "implementation" would not affect wall clock time at all until packets could arrive faster than 3GHz, or if you figured out a way to make `count++` run slower than packets could arrive.

Usually IO bound means 'kinda like that packet counter'. There are problems with being exactly like that packet counter (e.g. are you using the IO subsystem inefficiently, like reading one char at a time?), but it has the property that speeding up IO speeds up the program, and speeding up your code doesn't speed up the program (much, or at all).

You're right that it isn't a useful comparison between existing programs. It is useful to compare your program's CPU performance to theoretical limits on wall time. When your `wc` implementation approaches the speed of reading a file and doing nothing with it, then you can say it's IO bound. For this reason, there are very few single-file-reading programs that could be described as IO bound. It's common in networking where networks go much slower, and in filesystem traversal (e.g. ripgrep) but not for plain file reading.
Cool idea. I don't see why you couldn't do this. First, run seam carving at a few sample aspect ratios but modify the algorithm to keep track of what regions are carved. Create a kind of heatmap that records the "disposibility" of each pixel (probably in two dimensions, x and y) interpolated from the sample seam carved images. Use that to remove or add pixels as the user resizes the image.
It's still possible for data to be silently corrupted before it hits the HTTPS server [1]. After dealing with a similar issue that corrupted data silently, but still had valid checksums, I tend to not trust implicit checks. (My example wasn't an HTTPS specific issue, but it in theory could still happen with HTTPS).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34610581/is-it-necessary...
the thing that is missing (or was missing - not 100% of the current state of things right now) in nix land is the generalized concept of "waitForSomething" where "something" could include any* event/data that should/could wake a thread. kqueues help a bit, but I think it is still harder than it should be on *nix (even Linux) to write code whose semantics are "put this thread to sleep until anything happens".

If the thread is waiting on a specific set of objects (e.g. file descriptors, kqueues), then this can be done easily, but it's still not quite as simple as it has been under Windows (and by the way, IOCP is built on top of the underlying mechanism that makes this possible on Windows; they are not the mechanism itself)
Is that tweet really "extremely negative" towards Linux? All he says is that he doesn't want to abandon Windows but instead push back on changes to it he doesn't like; he doesn't make any judgements about Linux. The reality is there are many barriers to Linux replacing Windows as a desktop platform for users today so it's not surprising that someone who runs a business that depends on users doesn't want to push for a huge switch to Linux if it's not necessary. If a company not wanting to act outside it's interests makes it Linux's "biggest enemy" then it will be a very long time before it succeeds as the major desktop platform.
What software do you use to turn a phone into a surveillance camera?
I saw a comment a few days ago that said something about Fathom going closed for the hosted version. Do you know anything about that?

EDIT: Also looks like it's 14USD/mo for 100k views. GoatCounter offers this for free.
If you bought into the index lifestyle, live with it.
"The government regularly spends more than it takes in from taxes by issuing bonds. [...] That in turn lets the government spend money, which ultimately makes its way into the economy as a whole"

This is straight up nonsense. All currency issuers have the ability to spend which is skew from their need to tax. Taxes do not fund Federal spending. Taxes destroy money, and thus control inflation. That is a fundamentally different role.

https://www.bradford-delong.com/2013/04/abba-lerner-1943-fun...
I've always gotten rashes from salt-water - I think that's just a thing for some people and I wouldn't read too much into acidification as a cause for that particular problem.
In Sweden most packages are delivered to third party businesses that sign agreements with the delivery companies. Places like gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores.

Nowadays there are companies that offer evening time home delivery so that you can always be there.
I'm genuinely shocked to hear you characterize Sixth Sense in that way - to me it was a striking new idea. And the research - do you feel it was poor because it was HCI? What was the lack that you saw?
I don't know if this counts as a Project, but a friend of mine is still using her black plastic MacBook[0] interfaced to a ton of audio gear.

I don't know if she uses it for anything other than audio, but she's a musician so I think that part is used pretty seriously.

[0]: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook_2.0...
It's just protectionism. It's not like the chicken tastes of bleach. Have you ever eaten food in the US?
Is there a difference here between "an advertising company" and "does a lot of advertising"?

Amazon is very much the latter and that would seem to provide plenty of incentive to do dig through data / recognize the value / use it as they wish.

I'm sure they do plenty of analytics on data from their own platforms and that considerable effort could easily be extended to include any other data that they have access to.
Does anyone have good experiences with seamless sharding at the database layer? I'm old school and I'd be strongly inclined to look for a simple cut that allowed me to shard at the app layer, but I'd love to hear an alternative view.
As someone who lives in Steve Kings district and generally votes Republican, I leave that box blank every time voting rolls around.

That said, this seems like a pretty low-value article, so I'm surprised to see it on the front page.
it states it shares with Facebook regardless of you having an account with fb
I don't have good numbers on Linux sales but Rocket League sold over 10 Million copies back in 2017 and Steam had 0.67% Linux users. That would make the estimate 67000 Linux users back then and probably a bit more today.

That's probably not enough for a competitor to make any money, especially since they could only catch a part of these users.
I think they're saying that poor people shouldn't be coerced by a subsidy system to eat food that has to be chemically treated to remove pathogens, and which causes animal suffering which most people would reject if it weren't kept hidden.

There are plenty of ways for poor people to eat healthy diets without harming animals. It's a perverse incentive of the system that grows vast quantities of poor-quality corn and soybeans, cycles them through animals (wasting 90% of the calories in the process), and then feeds people the animals. A system that focused more on feeding people grains and pulses would produce more food for less money.

The US in particular is wedded to the notion that meat is essential and primary food, and it set up its entire agriculture industry to making that cheap. It does so at a cost of hidden subsidies, poor-quality and disease-ridden meat, and a lot of animal suffering. You don't have to be a PETA nutjob to object to factory farming.

A fairer and less abusive system would, indeed, mean that higher-quality meat is available primarily to rich people. But it's a strawman to say that it means that poor people shouldn't eat. They can eat very well as vegetarians, vegans, or even just people who eat meat occasionally rather than three times a day, every single day.
Before this gets flagged and taken down, I want to say that this is a good example of the many questions raised by a copyright regime that is clearly not designed for the modern era.
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I upload them to Google Play books.
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that's a great question - those approaches where based on acoustic similarity. Later approaches, including Echo Nest, included social features.

An example I used to use with Brian was that Bad Religion and NOFX sound similar. However, fans of one of those bands weren't often fans of the other. In this model, people have a need for an amount of that sound and a social connection, NOT a need for more and more and more of that sound.

Another diff is that Pandora used human music experts where EN used machine listening. They have some overlap, and some differences, but obv the machine listening is offline.
Does this work with old cellphones? I’ve got a lot more cellphones lying around than TVs/monitors.
==It's vinegar, essentially. To say that's unsafe or not to be used, we don't think there's a basis for that in sound science.==

Why aren't they just using vinegar if it's the same thing?
That would have been nice. The real figure is more like -50% effective: https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/half-of-wuhans-population-fled...
How is what I posted an example of this, in any way?

Use your imagination. The "cleaning" routine might not be a one-liner. Maybe it depends on multiple functions from another file/package/library.
When reading the context of the statement itself, it isn't that bad. He was concerned that Microsoft would introduce restrictions that place inhibitors on other vendors hardware with the introduction of a Pro operating system. The statement itself isn't the best, but his stance was that as a community Windows developers and users should push back against such changes.

An employee at Epic has mentioned that if someone with Linux development skills was interested, they would be more than happy to bring them on to develop a EGS application for Linux. The thread can be found here: https://twitter.com/CanalOCaraDoTI/status/110621899365072896... (scroll to the top for the beginning).
Where I am there is the problem that in any more than the lightest amount of traffic, the cars queued up at a red take too long to get up to speed, so you end up getting only 2-3 intersections of green before stopping because you never reach the speed-limit.

Even when cars do get up to speed, there's things like turning traffic vs. pedestrians. I suppose if they eliminated on-street parking and had dedicated turn lanes for both directions, it would work, but that's not happening any time soon.

I can actually make it down the entire length of a 1-way by going 25mph (the speed limit) and weaving between cars like a maniac, but that seems rather unsafe (not to mention illegal).
> If the end result is unequivocally good...

I think they'd argue "cleanliness" is not the only aspect of what "good" is. The chickens' diets and living conditions affect the quality of the chicken. To say nothing of the animal cruelty angle...
While true in theory, the gameplay vastly differs to say the least.
So we need to add multitasking controls directly to the visible UI. That means they could be accidentally triggered much more easily, so we'd need to do that in a clear and obvious way that isn't confusing, doesn't lead to accidental triggering and is easy and obvious to get out of. Also they need to be unobtrusive and minimise the impact on the display of applications and content.

Clearly having obscure gestures trigger functionality isn't ideal, but are the alternatives actually better, or even viable?

I do agree with Gruber, the current gestures and behaviours are awkward. I can think of some alternatives that might help. One would be to run your primary app, then have a Control Center widget activate a multitasking layout, then it display the home screen as an overlay, so you can choose any app to go into the 'second slot' of the chosen layout. That may well come with negative tradeoffs, but at least the app selection/launch process would be familiar. There may be things that can be done.

However there are no magic wands here. Getting rid of gestures sound great, but then what do you replace them with?
Poor (cheap) practices earlier in the process (aka life of the chicken) could cause lower quality meat, fewer nutrients, more likelihood for nasty stuff. Washing the germs away doesn't necessarily wash away the effect of that.
It's salt + sun + possible abrasion from sand, the change in pH is meaningless for someone swimming, we're talking about -0.05pH over a few decades or so.
You probably feel a painful sensation when getting inoculated too. It's the chemicals the government puts in vaccines.
Not open source, just available for review by government agencies. The UK's Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre has had access to Huawei's source for a while now, and has been complaining about bugs for about as long. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...
The guy needs to Chill T F O. R0 of measles is like 12-18.

And with the city-wide quarantine people should be modelling 99.99% reductions in travel not 99%.
What makes you say Russia has no market economy?

It's got dutch disease, due to its oil reserves, with most of the economy focused on resource extraction (and the rest being the service sector), but that's still a market economy.
Monty Python is specifically mentioned in the Jargon File:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-humor.html

And I'm fairly certain this predates esr's tenure (I used to own a copy of The Great Quux's hardcover).

We're just going to have to agree to disagree here.
"But the things people with money try to buy, education, property, financial assets, are mostly of a fixed supply and the prices will just keep spiraling."

Education is not in any way a fixed supply. We can train more teachers.
We don't have enough uran for it.

We would need to develop a wavesomethingreactor which doesn't exist yet.

Nuclear will not solve our problem.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/
Yeah, I think if the average person understood this there would be riots in the streets. It's an unbelievably huge regressive welfare program for the .01%.

Fortunately it's boring and complicated which is a built in guarantee that a large percentage of people will never care about it.
So, I fail to see the issue with the chemical currently used. Chlorine had obvious negative health issues, but peracetic acid and hydrogen peroxide both decay quickly when exposed to air: http://www.foodprotection.org/files/food-protection-trends/m...

I understand the concerns about using such processes over having a clean processing facility but I don't trust the cheap labor (prisoners, migrant farmers, etc) the US uses to not cause an outbreak. For those doubting this logic please look at the shit lettuce outbreaks we have every 2-3 months.
> The iPads Pro outperform MacBooks computationally.

How quickly Gruber falls in line with the propaganda machine the moment that official guidance (Airpods Pro) comes out. :D
"As for the acidifying ocean, NOAA proposes two methods of attack: Reducing our overall carbon footprint to reduce the carbon dioxide absorbed by the sea, or teach wildlife and the people who rely on it to adapt to how the sea will change."

teach wildlife to adapt - GLWT
because in Europe, livestock welfare matters more and more
Accurate dosing of mushrooms and other non-synthetic psychedelics is very difficult anyway, as the active compounds can greatly vary even within the same species and even within the same batch.

Also, with psychedelics the effects will vary from person to person, and even on the same person depending on that person's mood, body chemistry, how much and what they've eaten, what's going on with their life and their subconscious mind at the time, what their expectations are, their stage of development, where and with whom they take it, etc.
It's on the front page because it's an interesting and unusual copyright case.
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Thanks for the reply. I had a strong feeling the tool was causing an issue and not handling case 2 properly( or with enough configuration options).
The maximum they're willing to pay might have gone up, but they can find someone else instead of paying the maximum, because labor is provided by tons of different, individual people who don't coordinate a price. The rise of pro-union sentiment over the last year could be seen as recognition of that need for coordination.
If I played RL at a professional level (I do at a collegiate one), I would make sure I have a windows partition. It's not a massive issue for this scenario.
I have an Iranian visa in my passport, so I had to get a US visa to go to the US. I didn't have to talk to anyone when entering — the electronic thingy scanned the visa, and that was it.
Presumably, Banksy knew well that the stunt would increase the value of the drawing. So on some level, non-naivety is likely no matter what.

That said, it's still a commentary on the "art world." The unidealistic ways & reasons art is bought and how the value of art works... contrast to the idealistic artist destroying his work rather than having it denigrated. It's also inevitably hypocritical because the artist is either benefiting from the whole hype and hokum or wishes to be.

My guess is that the last part is why this is such a common navel-gazing motif in art. The heart at odds with itself. Idealists always struggle with all the hypocrisy, especially their own. Poor things.
The Netherlands has a treaty (against the outcome of the referendum) with the Ukraine which allows for effectively undermining our animal welfare policies.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2016/05/ukraine-poultry-giant-...

If the EU allows this as well (or finds some weird amended way to do the same while proclaiming something else) what's next?
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